VAK and Multiple Intelligences

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What are they?
VAK and Multiple Intelligences
Why are they important?
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• Those entering the workplace tomorrow will
  change professions, not just jobs, 4 or 5 times
  during their working lifetime.

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• Information is doubling every 2 ½ years.
• 80 of the reception class this year will enter
  careers that do not yet exist using technology
  that has not yet been invented.
• Today, engineers find that half their knowledge
  is obsolete in FIVE years.

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The incredible pace of change in our world means
that, as teachers and parents, we have to
emphasise different approaches to learning
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95 of what we know about the brain, we have
learnt in the last ten years
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Our Three Part Brain

• Cerebral Cortex
• responsible for storing and building up learning
  through information processing higher order
  thinking
• 2. Mid Brain (Mammalian Brain)
• responsible for emotion and well-being of
  individual
• 3. Hind Brain (Reptilian Brain)
• responsible for survival and dominates when
  under stress. Needs security and self-esteem
  maintained

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Help!!! I dont understand this!
I cant cope!
It is difficult to learn when we are stressed or
anxious
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Job description of the brain
Each half of the brain is specialised in
different ways of processing information
Which side do you favour?
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HOW THEY HANDLE
TIME

• Left-Brain Processors
• Strong Analytic Thinkers
• highly organised
• overly punctual
• plan their time
• like to use time planners
• keep diaries/journals
• love to-do lists
• want daily routine
• plan activities in advance
• get upset when time schedules
• are disrupted
• live within real timeframes
• prefer morning hours

• Right-Brain Processors
• Strong Holistic Thinkers
• disorganised
• difficult being on time
• tend to loose track of time
• find time planner very stressful
• only keep diaries if they have to
• hate to-do lists
• find routine limiting
• do things spontaneously
• have problems with following
• time schedules
• live with diffused time concepts
• prefer late afternoon/evening

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This is great. I understand now!
We learn best when we use BOTH sides of our
brains and feel happy about what we are doing and
know why we are doing it.
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Six main pathways to the brainWe learn by

• What we SEE
• What we HEAR
• What we TASTE
• What we TOUCH
• What we SMELL
• What we DO

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There are THREE types of learners

• VISUAL - Find it easier to take in new
  information from written word or posters
  with slogans. Like to write and draw images,
  tend to look upwards.

• AUDITORY - Enjoy speaking, easily distracted by
  rogue sounds. Like to hear a
  presentation, explain something to someone,
  tend to have eye level movements.

• KINAESTHETIC - Fidget and need regular breaks.
  Like to make things, speak slowly with long
  pauses, tend to look down.

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MULITPLE INTELLIGENCES Each person
is born with a unique blend of intelligences
which can continue to develop through life
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• The brain has a number of intelligence centres.
• The key to effective learning lies
• in unlocking all these centres
• Howard Gardner

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The Multiple Intelligence Wheel
From Colin Rose in Master it Faster
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• An intelligence is an ability to solve
• a problem or fashion a product which
• is valued in one or more cultural
• setting.
• Howard Gardner

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Becks is Supremely Intelligent!
VAK Learning Multiple
Styles
Intelligences

• Poor awareness of potential ability
• Recall
• Logical/Mathematical ability
• Verbal/linguistic ability

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The Multiple Intelligence Wheel
From Colin Rose in Master it Faster
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I need water it speeds up information
conversation
Feed Me!
I need oxygen children need to move
I need proteins fish, fruit, nuts
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Give the big picture first (R) and then break
down into chunks (L)
Draw a diagram (R) from a description (L)
Visualise the desired outcome (R) and then
describe orally to another pupil (L)
Chant using rhyme, rhythm, rap (R) to convey
information (L)
How can I connect the L and R sides of my brain?
Brain Gym (L R)
Mind Mapping (L R)
EXAMPLES
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Retention Rates of Students

• Listening to a lecture 5
• Reading 10
• Audio-visual 20
• Demonstration 30
• Discussion Group 50
• Practise by doing 75
• Teaching Others 90