Your trainer is

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Welcome
to todays workshop
learning
Your trainer is
David Chapman
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Todays objectives

• To learn how to work smarternot harder!
• To learn using eyes, ears, hands, and bodies
• To learn in brain-friendly ways
• To enjoy learning more!

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

Hard Work
Belief
Motivation
Positivity
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Titanic the meaning?
Dont judge too early give yourself time to
think and reflect
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The need for goals
When you know what you want, its much easier to
get it!
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Mission 2 - objectives
To help me learn quicker, better easier, by
finding out what type of learner I am
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Learning Styles
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
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V A K top tips

• 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

• 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

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V A K top tips

• 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 (Amarillos a winner!)
• Associate silly sounds with vital words

• Use plasticine/lego/newspapers sellotape to
  build models and re-create objects
• Build collages of info, cutting up text from
  photocopies and the internet

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Mission 3 Visual Learning objectives
To learn how to help myself understand and
organise information easily, and to make notes
WKD
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Helpful hints from brainy behinds
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WKD Hierarchy
Whats It All About? (Central Concept, Topic,
Theme etc)
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K
Key Categories
D
(Primary)
Details
D
(Secondary)
Details
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English texts the WKD way
W Your English text
K
K
K
Details
Details
Details
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Photosynthesis the hard way!
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
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.
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WKD on Photosynthesis
Chloro
NRG
Light
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V A K Visual learning
GCSE Science
by a very visual Year 10 student!
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Kinaesthetic learning
How can we learn the human body a different
way? Can we still make it WKD?
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Concept mapping
1. Turn your paper landscape
2. Whats It All About centre of the
page
3. Key topics and all Details written on
the line always!
4. Use 3 colours at least
5. As much as you can, use pictures
6. Single words where possible - not
sentences!
7. Our brains like curvy lines better than
straight
K
K
D 1
D 1
W
K
K
D 2
D 1
D 1
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Concept mapping a whole topic
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Concept mapping a whole topic
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Using songs to learn
The Human Body Amarillo style!
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
bodys full of organs Liver, skin, heart are some
of em And if you didnt have a body Youd feel
pretty empty, see!
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Ten top tips - example
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Motivation
but also remember
Try? No! Do, or do not. There is no try
Always remember how successful you can be when
you give 100