Learning to Learn

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Learning to Learn
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The Menu for today

• The Brain
• Being multisensory
• Avoiding stress
• Seeing the big picture
• Organising learning
• Making links
• Revision Tips

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What is brain-based learning?

• All Learning takes place in the brain.
• Everyone learns in a different way.
• Accelerated learning is about knowing how the
  brain is constructed and how to be a successful
  learner.

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In the Days of the Caveman

• What would he have to think about?
• What would he have to learn?
• What would he be afraid of?

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The Functions of the BrainThe Reptilian Brain

• Making sure you survive
• Breathing and making your arms and legs move
• Protecting your territory
• Knowing how to get a mate.
• Knowing who the boss is.
• The things you do without thinking about them

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The Functions of the BrainThe Limbic System

• Helping us get well when were ill
• Eating and sleeping patterns
• Knowing what to do when youve got a mate.
• Understanding what is right and what is wrong.
• Routing information to where it is needed
• Controlling emotions
• Retaining information in long term memory

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The Functions of the BrainThe Cerebral Cortex
This part of the brain has evolved most recently.
It is divided into two halves and is situated on
top of the limbic system. It is responsible for

• Relaying messages from right and left brain.
• Problem solving
• Understanding how to get on with people.
• Working out what things mean and making the
  connections with your own experiences.

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• The more of your brain you use

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the more you remember!
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A Brain Teaser

• 2 men and 2 boys need to cross a river
• Their boat will only take 1 man or 2 boys at a
  time
• How do they all get across?

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How did you work it out?
Some learners like to physically act out the
problem

• Verbal Symbols Pictorial
• Two boys across 2b
• One boy back -1b
• One man across 1m
• One boy back -1b
• Two boys across 2b
• One boy back -1b
• One man across 1m
• One boy back -1b
• Two boys across 2b

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Breakstate

• Double Doodle

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Learning through the Multiple Intelligences
LINGUISTIC

• Reading, poetry, writing
• Maths, puzzles, well-organised
• Thinks in pictures, maps and charts, uses
  movement to help learning
• Independent, Knowing what you believe in, strong
  sense of fairness
• Good timing, likes to act, dance and touch, good
  control of objects
• Sensitive to mood emotion, rhythm and melody
• Sorts out arguments, good communicator
• Notices and is interested in nature,
  environmentally friendly

MATHEMATICAL LOGICAL
VISUAL SPATIAL
INTRAPERSONAL
KINESTHETIC
MUSICAL
INTERPERSONAL
NATURALIST
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Learning through the senses

• A visual learner likes to use pictures to work
  things out and remember things.
• An auditory learner likes to listen and discuss
  things with others.
• A kinaesthetic learner likes to move things, act
  things out to work out and remember things.

visual
auditory
kinaesthetic
Everybody uses all their senses but most people
have one sense that is more effective when we
have to learn something new.
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Songs

• Making up songs about what we have learnt stores
  it in the long term memory.

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• Surprise and fun keep the brain engaged.

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Review Recall

• Review and recall can mean sharing what you
  have remembered. It is important to be able to
  review what you have learnt regularly.
  Explaining it to someone else helps to store the
  learning for easy recall.

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We are all learners and we can choose whether we
learn or not!
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Water essential for the brain!
Moistens the brain
Stops dry mouth, poor breathing, chapped lips
Makes you think more quickly
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Get in the mood for learning

• Stress is no good!

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Breakstate

• Would you like a piece of cake sir?
• No Sir
• Why Sir?
• Because Ive got a cold Sir
• Where did you get the cold Sir?
• From the North Pole Sir
• What were you doing there Sir?
• Catching polar bears Sir
• How many did you catch Sir?
• 1 Sir, 2 Sir, 3 Sir, 4 Sir
• What happened to the 5th Sir?
• It caught me Sir!

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Make mistakes

• Important for success!
• Say, I can
• How will I do it next time?

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Memory techniques
Ask a child to explain their mind map

• Mind maps
• Creating ideas
• Organising ideas
• Memorising information
• The peg system learning journeys see next
  slide
• Memory games to improve short term memory
• Available from the project
• Visual Associations
• I hear with my ear

Friend we should never fri a friend on
Friday because a friend will be there in the
end. And Friday is the end of the week
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The Peg System
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10
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How much do you forget?

• Add bottle emptying

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Associations

• You should never fri a friend on Friday because a
  friend will be there in the end
• Lead - Pb I led in the race and I achieved my
  personal best
• The heart is like a pump
• white cells soldiers fighting the enemy

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PLANTS
PLANTS
FLOWERS
GERMINATION
GROWTH
CONDITIONS
FERTILISATION
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Ways to revise

• Make a poster summarising the main points being
  as creative as possible
• Tape your summary and listen to it
• Describe what you know to a friend
• Regularly look at a mind map
• Revision cards with pictures and/or words

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You have covered..

• The Brain
• Being multisensory
• Avoiding stress
• Seeing the big picture
• Organising learning
• Making links
• Revision Tips

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How do I learn best?

• Now that you know what type of learner you are.
• What are you going to do about it?