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Task Make a foil sculpture to demonstrate what type of learner you are.

How best do you learn?

Current policy The Children and Families Act 2014: “All children and young people are entitled to an education that allows them to make progress.” Making higher quality teaching available to the whole class should mean fewer pupils need support and it will promote a fully inclusive classroom (DFE, 2014)

How do you learn? Within your classrooms you need to suit everyone’s needs. What do you do?

The method = multisensory “From the rich experiences that our senses bring, we construct the ideas, the concepts, the generalisations that give meaning and order to our lives.” (Dale, 1969)

Good teaching should… Aid demystification and empower the students to improve metacognition Pique interest Empower all of your learners to improve confidence

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Multisensory teaching Multisensory = simultaneously activating two or more learning pathways when a new instruction is processed (Neer, 2012)

Is it a ? Endorsers of multisensory teaching state if more areas of the brain are engaged information retention and absorption will be improved (TES, 2012) Multisensory teaching offers the opportunity to personalise learning

Multisensory teaching Even some small adjustments can enable the multisensory approach to be built in as well as achieving overlearning.

Multisensory teaching Isolated Identity Racism Jim Crow laws Crooks No name Possession Curley’s wife Okies Ranch – members represent flawed 1930s society

Multisensory teaching

Measuring impact 100% of the students academic results improved from their starting position. 32% of the group progressed by 1 grade 53% progressed by 2 grades 15% made 3 grades of progress Improvements have continued…

Key findings The multisensory method enabled all to engage, analyse and produce work to a good standard Multisensory teaching provides effective and adaptive methods for tackling engagement and attainment (Baines, 2008). Multisensory teaching can also improve precision (Ernst and Banks, 2002) The study’s findings indicate that multisensory teaching in secondary schools is one approach to improving literacy skill deficits

Future steps Confucius said: “Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand.” It will ensure every child does matter.

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