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Start, stop, start, stop, start ….. “learning little and often” is one of the best learning strategies for your children

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What is one of the very best learning strategies you can use in helping your children with their learning?

Were you ever in a lesson at school or a lecture at college in which the teacher or lecturer spoke and spoke and spoke and went on and on and on for hours on end? Did you learn anything?

I have been in just such a situation several times and I have to say trying to keep my attention was like torture. Did I do any learning? Did I retain anything? Not a bean! Such lessons to me where as useful as an asthmatic ant carrying heavy shopping to my house, no use at all! (Thank you for that line Blackadder).

Why are long continuous lessons such ineffective learning strategies?

Well, because as researchers and writers such as Eric Jensen have concluded “the brain learns best in the pattern of a pulse. Learning is best when focused, diffused, focused, diffused…..”.

So what are the best learning strategies?

The Learning Well Method Part 4

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Hi again

The Learning Well Method in combination with Memory Mapping is a very,very, strong learning and memory technique for helping you massively improve your children’s academic and literacy abilities.

We have walked the path of The Learning Well Method in improving the abilities of many children and now we want to teach you how you can walk with us so that you too can help your children massively improve their learning and learning abilities.

We said that we would summarize for you the four stages of The Learning Well Method. We have covered three so far and so here is the fourth and final part of the Method.

The Learning Well Method Part 3

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Hi again,

You probably have read about the first two stages of The Learning Well Method of learning. We now have reached stage 3. If not we invite you to read our earlier two Blog entries before reading this one.

3) The third stage is – Do you know it?

We believe that the important thing when ‘testing’ is for your children to be able to express what they know.

The Memory Map can be used to test what your child or children know about the subject, as written down in their Memory Maps.

At the heart of this system, is creating the habit of expressing what your children know without a judgment about getting it wrong. There is no failure, there are only results. Instead of criticizing, the testing process is about gaining feedback and learning what can be improved on next time. How do you do this?

The Learning Well Method Part 2

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Hi, this is Tony and Alan again

We said that we would let you into the secret of The Learning Well method and so as promised here is the second stage of the method.

2) The second stage is – Action Steps

The Learning Well Method uses The Learning Well Memory Map system for its action steps to greatly improve learning in any area and provide a step-by-step guide for you to follow and help your children improve.

Using the Method little and often achieves outstanding results, so take action in little steps and do it frequently.

Here is an overview of the Memory Mapping skill using a completed Memory Map.

The Learning Well Method – Part 1

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Hi, this is Tony Lazar and Alan McMahon

Thanks for all the great feedback on our articles and reports. Its fantastic to know that it has been of use to so many of you and of course your children.

We spoke to a London based Head Teacher yesterday who was looking for ways of motivating children to do more outside of the classroom to improve their literacy and learning. During the discussion she asked us to summarize The Learning Well four stage Method of learning for children.

Just what is the secret of the method that has a tremendous impact on children’s literacy and related subjects and is so really very easy to learn?

We told her the answer and would love you to have The Learning Well Method summary as well.

Why? Because you can easily use the method to massively improve your children’s abilities at school!

We will therefore summarize the method in this Blog and three further Blogs as the method is a four stage process.
So, here is the first part of the summary that we produced: