Brain-Friendly Learning

I write or doodle or sketch about something rather than reading about it. I show and tell about something rather than listening about it. Teach back... have a discussion about something with others. I move around -- do something -- rather than sit still... and bored. Make me post a note on the board ... force me to move away from my seat! I see images rather than words. A picture is worth a thousand word. I get the idea quicker with a picture or a metaphor. I absorb ideas delivered in 8 minutes or less! Just like those talks…

Summarize... converge ideas...conclude. So... what have you learned and what are going to do about it? What's your action plan? Are these actions prioritized... on a roadmap?

Once a person teaches back something, that Information that he/she teaches back has gone through him via listening or reading about it; thought about it...made relationships / connections of the new information to existing information... resulting in discovery of new information, concepts or ideas. One of the best ways to reinforce what was learned is by telling or teaching it back in our own words with liberal spread of concrete examples from our own context and personal experiences and / or experiences from others. Let your trainees teach back what they have learned. We all win when learners teach and…

We have a parish priest that is very good in terms of his delivery of the gospel. He starts with a story... a very relatable one... meaning, a story in current times and not from 2000 or so years ago. He gets my attention all the time. I surmise the same is true with the majority of the mass attendees. The previous Sunday he talked about his mom (Mother's Day Sunday)... everyone got mom... very relatable topic... his story resounded; and then he injected the essence of the gospel; people connected the gospel's message to their own context and experiences...…

Learn by doing ... 'Tell me and I'll forget. Teach me and I'll remember. Involve me and I'll learn." -- Benjamin Franklin