Personalised Learning Trevor Hawes

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Personalised LearningTrevor Hawes
www.optimal-learning.net
TeL [phone]
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Teaching
Learning
Thinking
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A Class ACT

• Absorb Information
• Construct Meaning
• Transfer into Long Term Memory

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What We Teach

• Children are alert, attentive, motivated,
  enthusiastic and engaged when
• They see importance and relevance and purpose and
  pleasure in what they are learning

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How Children Apply Learned Skills

• Turning Knowledge into Understanding
• Children must be able to apply learning in a
  meaningful way in their world

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How Children Learn How We teach

• Learning Styles
• Left Brained/Right Brained
• Visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic
• Average male and Female Brains

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The two halves of the neo-cortex like different
things. Which is your preferred side?
words, reading, language numbers logical,
ordered plans well, makes lists likes
facts follows rules usually safe questions step
by step to the answer tidy and organised likes to
be on time prefers black and white sketches to
colour rules lines to write on
art and being creative needs big picture takes
risks music, rhyme and rhythm, movement has
ideas imagines, daydreams role play disorganised a
n ish person enjoys dancing and sport prefers
pictures to words
Left
Right
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How do YOU learn best?
Hear-ers Auditory
See-ers Visual
Do-ers Kinaesthetic
For the best results, use all THREE!
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Inside your amazing neo-cortex
eyes to see
ears to hear
bodies to do
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We learn best with all our senses but also have a
fast lane (a sense we like to use best)
Which do you think is your fast lane?
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How Learning Assessed

• Generating now feedback for learning, improvement
  and goal setting
• Stopping one fit for all assessment procedures
• Stage not Age

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Childrens Capacity to Learn
Gifts and talents Come In Many Forms!

• Left

Right
Body
Logic
Practical
EQ
Maths
People
IQ
Self
Music
Nature
Linguistic
Visual Spatial