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Welcome. to today’s workshop:. learning. Your trainer is. David Chapman. Today’s objectives. To learn how to work smarter…not harder! To learn using eyes, ears, hands, and bodies To learn in brain-friendly ways To enjoy learning more!. Your Amazing Brain!. RIGHT Imaginative Artistic

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  1. Welcome to today’s workshop: learning Your trainer is David Chapman

  2. Today’s objectives • To learn how to work smarter…not harder! • To learn using eyes, ears, hands, and bodies • To learn in brain-friendly ways • To enjoy learning more!

  3. Your Amazing Brain! RIGHT Imaginative Artistic Fantasy focused Creative Full of ideas Musical LEFT Logical Mathematical Problem solver Fact focused Organiser One thing at a time

  4. Mission 1 - objectives • To find out what my rewards are for working hard • To learn how important attitude is to success • To keep an open mind about how successful I could be Hard Work Belief Motivation Positivity

  5. Titanic – the meaning? Don’t judge too early – give yourself time to think and reflect

  6. The need for goals When you know what you want, it’s much easier to get it!

  7. Mission 2 - objectives To help me learn quicker, better & easier, by finding out what type of learner I am

  8. Learning Styles Visual: Learns best with pictures, colours, maps and diagrams etc Auditory: Learns best by listening, speaking, chanting, and singing Kinaesthetic: Learns best by using physical actions, making models, and making emotional connections

  9. V A K: top tips • Shorten your notes using as many pictures & images as possible • Choose powerful images that will trigger your memory for related information e.g. respiration, excretion (!) • Record notes onto tape/CD and play back to reinforce it in your mind • Write down trigger words on flash cards and try to talk about related information for 30 seconds • Summarise your notes by writing out trigger words on Post-It notes, and then related words on other Post-Its, and stick them on your wall • To memorise, use storyboards or look at flashcards/concept maps whilst walking/jogging or cycling

  10. V A K: top tips • Use colours and highlighters to pick out vital words • Try and build a visual storyline to connect information from a topic • Replace lyrics in your favourite songs with topic related information (Amarillo’s a winner!) • Associate silly sounds with vital words • Use plasticine/lego/newspapers & sellotape to build models and re-create objects • Build collages of info, cutting up text from photocopies and the internet

  11. Mission 3 – Visual Learning objectives To learn how to help myself understand and organise information easily, and to make notes WKD…

  12. Helpful hints from brainy behinds

  13. WKD Hierarchy What’s It All About? (Central Concept, Topic, Theme etc) W K Key Categories D (Primary) Details D (Secondary) Details

  14. English texts – the WKD way W = Your English text K = K = K = Details Details Details

  15. Photosynthesis – the hard way! PHOTOSYNTHESIS Process through which light energy, water, and carbon dioxide are converted to carbohydrate and oxygen in the presence of chlorophyll. Occurs in plants,cyanobacteria and lichens. Chlorophyll is a green, light-absorbing pigment found in plants and other photosynthetic organisms. A magnesium-porphyrin complex, it is an essential electron donor in photosynthesis.

  16. WKD on Photosynthesis Chloro NRG Light ? ? ? ? ? ?

  17. V A K: Visual learning GCSE Science …by a very visual Year 10 student!

  18. Kinaesthetic learning How can we learn the human body a different way? Can we still make it WKD?

  19. Concept mapping 1. Turn your paper landscape 2. What’s It All About centre of the page 3. Key topics and all Details written on the line – always! 4. Use3coloursatleast 5. As much as you can, use pictures 6. Singlewords where possible - not sentences! 7. Our brains like curvy lines better than straight K K D 1 D 1 W K K D 2 D 1 D 1

  20. Concept mapping a whole topic

  21. Concept mapping a whole topic

  22. Using songs to learn The Human Body – Amarillo style! VERSE This is the human body-o Arms, legs, a head and a torso We got plenty of muscles Glutes, quads, biceps and pectorals Bones give us strength, yeah The tibia is just one You got bones everywhere Even under your bum! CHORUS Is the awesome human body here? Blood carrying nutrients everywhere Retina, iris, cornea Helping us to look and see The human body’s full of organs Liver, skin, heart are some of ‘em And if you didn’t have a body You’d feel pretty empty, see!

  23. Ten top tips - example

  24. Motivation …but also remember… “Try? No! Do, or do not. There is no try” “Always remember how successful you can be when you give 100%”

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