your trainer is welcome to today’s workshop: david chapman learning
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Your trainer isYour trainer is
WelcomeWelcome
to today’s workshop:to today’s workshop:
David David ChapmanChapman
learninglearning
Today’s objectivesToday’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!
LEFTLogical
Mathematical
Problem solver
Fact focused
Organiser
One thing at a time
RIGHTImaginative
Artistic
Fantasy focused
Creative
Full of ideas
Musical
Your Amazing Your Amazing Brain!Brain!
Mission 1 - Mission 1 - objectivesobjectives• 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 Titanic – the meaning?meaning?
Don’t judge too Don’t judge too early – give early – give
yourself time to yourself time to think and reflectthink and reflect
The need for goalsThe need for goals
When you know what you want, it’s much easier to get
it!
Mission 2 - Mission 2 - objectivesobjectives
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 Learning StylesStyles
• 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 tipsV 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 tipsV 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 Mission 3 – Visual LearningLearning
objectivesobjectivesTo learn how to help myself understand and organise
information easily, and to make notes WKD…
Helpful hints from brainy Helpful hints from brainy behindsbehinds
WKD HierarchyWKD Hierarchy
WWKK
DD
DD
WWhat’s It All About?hat’s It All About? (Central Concept, Topic, Theme (Central Concept, Topic, Theme etc)etc)
KKey Categoriesey Categories
(Primary)
(Secondary)
DDetailsetails
DDetailsetails
English texts – the WKD English texts – the WKD wayway
W = Your English textK = K = K =
Details DetailsDetails
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 Photosynthesis – the hard way!way!
WKD on WKD on PhotosynthesisPhotosynthesis
LightLight
ChloroChloro
NRGNRG
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V A K: Visual V A K: Visual learninglearningGCSE
Science
…by a very
visual Year 10
student!
Kinaesthetic Kinaesthetic learninglearning
How can we learn the human body a different way?
Can we still make it WKD?
Concept Concept mappingmapping
WWKK
KK
KK
KK D 1D 1
D 1D 1 D 1D 1
D 1D 1D 2D 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 Concept mapping a whole topictopic
Concept mapping a whole Concept mapping a whole topictopic
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 learnUsing songs to learn
The Human Body – Amarillo style!
Ten top tips - Ten top tips - exampleexample
“Always remember how successful you can be when you
give 100%”
…but also remember…
MotivatioMotivationn
“Try? No!
Do, or do not.
There is no try”