Motion creates Emotion
You can create a brilliant motivational learning environment and a wonderful learning experience outside of school or in your home and transform your children’s academic abilities through using movement.
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. Don’t you just feel great after that swim or run?
The fact is that all motion creates emotion, all movement creates emotion and the focus in our Blog entry today is to highlight this point and its relevance to children’s education for school, home and life.
Movement is such an important thing, especially for children, and we all know that children are continually in motion; they are always moving around, they are always doing things. Moving is their natural state of being and they are at their happiest when able to move.
However, when at school they are expected to learn sitting at their tables for most of the time. The logistics of teaching in a formal setting means they if they were moving around all the time it would be total chaos. Can you imagine it?
What about outside of school or in the home?
The expectation again is that when learning outside of school that children will also need to do what they do in school. Children are therefore again expected to sit quietly and get on with learning just as if they were in school. It is really important to realise that this expectation is one of the greatest barriers to children learning outside of school or at home and this expectation can lead to a lack of motivation.
Outside of school and at home you have a huge advantage over the formal setting of the school and this is that children can be encouraged to move about and do things.
Movement increases the motivation and the desire to learn.
For children to learn outside of school or in the home they do not have to be sitting at a table writing. If movement can be introduced to academic work then the motivation to do this work, and to do it for longer periods, will be high resulting in an increased rate of learning.
We have developed a number of systems that use movement as one of the keys to learning and tapping into the increased motivation that this brings. These systems are used for literacy, writing, speaking, and maths, absorbing facts of all sorts and transforming your children’s abilities and increasing their skills in all subjects.
One such system is the Learning Well Memory Map.
Children can do a Memory Map on a piece of paper, on a board or easel or even imagine it on a wall. By doing academic work using Memory Maps they have a freedom to move and an ease which gets them working at peak performance. We therefore encourage you to have some sort of board or easel up on a wall somewhere and to have plenty of pens and paper available for drawing Memory Maps as children love working in this way.
The Map uses speaking and movement as the key to learning and enables you to interact with and provide feedback to your children.
You are easily able to hear, see, and get a feel of just how much your children have learned about the subject, place or thing that they are learning about because your children will use the Memory Map to help them speak to you about it.
You can then speak to them encouraging and guiding them in their learning
The great thing about speaking it is that it doesn’t have to happen whilst sitting in a chair. Children can be walking up and down the room, moving their arms about, play acting, doing anything that gets them absorbed in using movement and the Memory Mapping Technique to learn.
The whole process becomes more like play and as children love to play and have fun, they will love to learn and their motivation to do so is increased.
Believe it! You can create a brilliant motivational environment and a wonderful learning experience outside of school or in your home and transform your children’s abilities through using movement.
