The Learning Well Tutor

When learning Multi-path methods are the best

How can you best learn? How can your children best learn?

The brain processes, stores and recalls learning and experience in the form of different visual imagery, sounds and feelings. Images can be large, small, bright, dim, colour, black and white.Sounds can be loud, quite, have a rhythm or be random. Feelings can be hot, cold, hard, soft, fast, and slow.

The ways of describing how the brain processes and recalls are of course far more than we have set out here and this multitude of possible descriptions is a powerful pointer to the best way for you to experience learning and for your brain to learn.

For many people who want to learn something the method they will use will be to read and re read a script until such time as they can “remember” it. Obviously this is making use of just one method available to the brain for learning and most people, including children, will recall only a small portion of what they have read in this way.

Is there a better way? Yes there is!

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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?

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Mapping is a brilliant memory technique making it easy for children to remember what they have read and at the same improve their learning and recall of the subject

When your children read their understanding, learning, and recall of the subject matter will significantly improve if you use a memory technique that makes a pattern, representation or model of the written material.

So says the work of various researchers, so why not do this and greatly help your children to make learning easy.

How can you make and use a model and and the same time significantly improve your children’s abilities in literacy and all related subjects?

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Make it fun then you’ve won – How to motivate your children so that they want to learn

For the first part of their lives children will spend between 14 and 18 years at school studying and learning. With so much time dedicated to learning and with the result of this education determining what children do with their lives; it is massively important that they are motivated to learn.

We are all motivated to do something if we enjoy doing it, if we find it pleasurable. If pleasure can be linked to learning then your children will want to learn.

It’s as simple as this:

If your children enjoy learning then they will be motivated to learn more and if they learn more they will be better able and set to achieve in school and in life.

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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.

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