Accelerated Learning Cycle

Stage 3 - Present New Information

Key Features:

• Through all senses (Visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic etc)
• "Hook" the students
• Emotional/Unusual aids memory
• Short, clear, 'punchy'. for example you might use:
  ICT
  Artifacts: smells/food/tape/text/speaker/video/music

PRESENT - This is the big opportunity in the lesson to “hook" the learner and to engage them in learning. Any new information presented to students should take account of the way in which we take in information through all our senses and should seek to be a multi-sensory experience - Visual, Auditory and (if possible) Kinaesthetic.

We should also make use of NOVELTY to "SURPRISE" the brain - we remember dramatic, unusual and emotional events.

In enquiry based lessons the learning outcomes would be presented in terms of an issue or in the form of an essential question to be answered For example, “How can we ensure that everyone on the planet has access to fresh water?" at the beginning of a lesson on the water cycle. Presenting the learning outcomes in this way leads to a more naturally engaging start to a lesson, as learning is automatically contextualised and made relevant to the learner.

The advent of the interactive white board, an increasingly common sight in our classrooms, is an ideal vehicle through which highly visual and dynamic presentations can be made and gives us a hint of the role ICT can begin to play in truly transforming learning.

However - dynamic, engaging and multi-sensory as any presentation might be, the learner is still largely passive in this role and so this stage should not last too long - remember the enemy of learning is the talking teacher and it is time to move on to the fourth stage.

Source: http://www.teep.info/