ACCELERATE YOUR LEARNING WITH TRIED AND TESTED ACCELERATED LEARNING TECHNIQUES 1. Create strong associations to for example, place, people or things. 2. Colour coding 3. Rhyming 4. Location of objects 5. Music - e.g. for a lot of people there is that piece of music that reminds them of someone special. Classical music, e.g. Mozart helps with the learning process; baroque music is also an important learning aid. 6. Visualisation 7. Tonality. 8. Touch - the finger phonics system is being used more and more in schools. 9. Sense of smell. 10. Relaxation - the calmer we are the easier it is to remember. 11. Taste. 12. Rehearsing information that has been taken on board, this helps to secure it in our brain. 13. Reading out loud. 14. Reading out loud before bedtime so that the sub-conscious mind can go to work. 15. Understanding the meaning of something. 16. Learning in small chunks of time (e.g. 45 minutes). 17. Understanding the context (big picture). 18. Learning by doing, as opposed to simply just being told what to do. 19. Ideas and sentences are easier to remember than individual words. 20. Use of our imagination for creativity. 21. Playing games and role playing. 22. Use of our peripheral vision. 23. I forget what I hear, I remember what I see. I learn what I do. Chinese Proverb. 24. Movement. 25. Whole brain thinking. Use of both the right brain (pictures, music, art and images) and left brain (language, logic, sequence and analysis) to multiply our brain power. 26. Pictures aid our ability to recall. 27. We usually remember when something huge has taken place e.g. the first time the four minute mile was broken by Roger Bannister, Jesse Owens winning four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics, the fall of the Berlin wall, 9th September 2001 (9/11). 28. Use of mind maps. 29. Telling stories, as these are able to link ideas. 30. Use of all of our senses at once - visual, auditory, kinaesthetic, olfactory, gustatory. 31. Breathe deeply, and rhythmically from the diaphragm. 32. Draw pictures. 33. Make a mental movie of your learning and replay it, and replay it and replay it. 34. Share your learning with others. In the act of teaching we are learning. 35. Positive self talk - believe that you are learning. 36. Take regular breaks. 37. Remember, repetition leads to greater skill. 38. Be open to playing with the awe and thirst of a child. 39. Put on tape information you wish to learn and replay, replay and replay. 40. The female voice appears to help with the learning process. 41. Encouraging questions and supporting the questioner in coming up with the answer. 42. Become a part of a group, learning increases through discussion. 43. Join an accelerated learning association. 44. In the learning environment, students ought to feel welcomed and a horse shoe seating arrangement ought to be considered. 45. Words create our reality, the use of positive focused words help with the learning process. 46. It's important that information is exciting to learn, this will support the learners internal motivation to learn - that is, `I want do this because it is exciting and enjoyable to learn'. 47. Flexibility in the accelerated learning process is important - watch to see what works. If a particular learning process is not working, do something else. It is important therefore to act on the information you get. 48. Hold out high expectations of learning through positive suggestion, e.g. `you can do it' 49. Support yourself and others to learn how to learn. 50. Please add your own ideas to this list. |
