The Learning Well Method – Part 1
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:
There are 4 Stages of learning -
1) Whatever you are LEARNING
2) Take action STEPS
3) Ask, do you KNOW IT?
4) Do what WORKS
To remember this, think of the mnemonic:
“Learning Steps Know It Works”
The first of these stages is expanded upon in this Blog and the other three will follow very shortly.
The Learning Well Method Part 1
1) The first stage is learning
There are many areas that your children will need to learn and School provides an environment in which children work fairly hard.
However, the work at school will not be studied so readily at home.
If you try and carry out the same type of work, it is unlikely to be successful. Up goes the cry “I want to do something else”, watch TV, play computer games, sports, anything other than doing yet ‘more learning’. Even homework has the advantage of the fact that it must be completed for school. Any extra work is therefore a struggle.
So how do we help you to overcome this problem?
The answer is that the work has to be more interesting and more fun!
Instead of doing ‘more school work’ you need to meet your children in areas of their own interest. This could be those TV programs, computer games, sports; really just about anything that interests them. This will create motivation. Your children will want to use The Learning Well Method, because its fun!
Please do suspend your own judgment of what constitutes work, particularly academic work. Besides school subjects there are many other opportunities in your children’s lives that can provide the basis for their learning. Ideas to help you in this regard can be found throughout this Blog.
Please remember this.
YOU CAN IMPROVE YOUR CHILD’S LITERACY AND ACADEMIC ABILITIES DRAMATICALLY WITHOUT DOING SCHOOLWORK.
With the method you make it fun, then you’ve won!
The second stage of The Learning Well Method will be provided in our next Blog.
