Emotions are linked to the ability to learn so how do you find the techniques and activities to help you?
Did you know that there is a strong link between emotions and the ability to learn which begs the question; what techniques and activities are available to you, the parent, to use emotion to improve learning and children’s capabilities for when it is time for lessons at school?
If you are feeling positive about a life experience, if it was enjoyable and made you happy; you will want more of it, if it was painful, laborious, or truly dull you will want less.
In addition researchers say that really positive emotions about your learning enable you to make maps in your brain, arrange this learning better, and make you better able to remember it.
So, how can you take the result of this research and translate it into action, so that you can take steps to use the techniques and activities available to help you help your children learn?
We often say “make it fun then you’ve won”, so when helping your children why not use stories, role play, singing, speaking, improvisation, and moving about, all focused on creating positive emotions that help your children learn.
One way to do this, and pull your children’s learning together in an ordered format is to use a Memory Map, one of the world’s really great learning techniques. You may be aware that Memory Mapping is a significant part of what we advocate at The Learning Well.
Creating memory maps can involve all the fun activities listed above and more, and can be the catalyst to greatly improved learning for your children.
With Mapping, learning and recall of schoolwork can be much, much easier and the same can be true for your children’s interests and hobbies outside of school.
You can download a free report on Memory Mapping on this Blog.
Have fun creating Memory Maps and help your children learn.
