The Learning Well Method is captured by the mnemonic ‘Learning Steps Know It Works’ The Method is set out below in four steps: 1) Whatever you are LEARNING 2) Take the Action STEPS to learn 3) Test by Asking do you KNOW IT? 4) And, do what WORKS Remember the mnemonic ‘Learning Steps Know It [...]
In the book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell showed the player roster of the 2007 Medicine Hat Tigers Hockey Team (researched by a Canadian psychologist named Roger Barnsley). Listen to Tony Lazar’s view on how this affects a child’s progress through school: Key Points from the audio: Seventeen out of the twenty five players were born in [...]
Most people accept the idea that if you take some exercise, especially aerobic type of exercise, that you can change your state of mind so that you get a heightened sense of well-being But that fact is that all motion creates emotion, all movement creates emotion and the focus of this article is to highlight [...]
What on earth has movement got to do with maths? Surely movement is to do with physical education or sports and not maths! When children are moving about they are happy. Children therefore love to move and are always in perpetual motion whenever they have the choice. The problem with Maths is that it is [...]
Rote learning is not the most effective or efficient way to learn multiplication tables. There are other easy memorisation methods
