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The Learning Well Method is captured by the mnemonic
‘Learning Steps Know It Works’
The Method is set out below in four steps:
1) Whatever you are LEARNING
2) Take the Action STEPS to learn
3) Test by Asking do you KNOW IT?
4) And, do what WORKS
Remember the mnemonic:
‘Learning Steps Know It Works’
In the book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell showed the player roster of the 2007 Medicine Hat Tigers Hockey Team (researched by a Canadian psychologist named Roger Barnsley).
Listen to Tony Lazar’s view on how this affects a child’s progress through school:
Times tables are one of those things which everyone has to learn. Tables are traditionally things that have been learnt a certain way over the years.
People know they can learn their tables, but these are taught to us in a rote fashion, and to get them right takes a long time and a lot of effort.This means learning multiplication tables is slow, unproductive, and involves too much thinking, as we are taught them in a linear fashion.
For example schools still teach times tables by getting children to read or say them out loud repeatedly, or using some another form of repetition such as this:
1 x 2 = 2
2 x 2 = 4
3 x 2 = 6
This is rote learning and there is a much better and far easier way for your children to learn the tables! How?
