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

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!

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

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 Belief Motivation Positivity Hard Work

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

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

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

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 Learning Styles

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 V A K: top tips 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

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 V A K: top tips Use plasticine/lego/newspapers & sellotape to build models and re-create objects Build collages of info, cutting up text from photocopies and the internet

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

Helpful hints from brainy behinds

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

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

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. PHOTOSYNTHESIS Photosynthesis – the hard way!

WKD on Photosynthesis Light Chloro NRG ? ? ? ?? ?

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

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

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

Concept mapping a whole topic

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! Using songs to learn The Human Body – Amarillo style!

Ten top tips - example

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