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This course is especially useful for those Science teachers who have embraced accelerated learning methods and now want to find very real and practical ways to make them come alive in the classroom. Lesson ideas, plans, examples and resources will be provided and generated throughout the course. The essential focus of the course is on how thinking skills can be accessed and how note making and note taking skills will improve retention and recall.

Who’s it for?

Key stage 3 and 4 Science Teachers

Aims and Objectives

• To know how to plan to access different learning and thinking styles
• To know how to use summary posters, mindmaps, memory hooks, the journey system, the Roman Room system, mnemonics and the story system to improve note-making skills
• To know how to use thinking maps to improve understandin

What you will receive

• An inspiring, amusing and uplifting learning experience
• The opportunity to share good ideas and good practice across key stages
• A handy in-course workbook which can be used as a resource manual afterwards

Content of the Course

• The Positively MAD Accelerated Science Learning Cycle
• Using Bloom’s Taxonomy and Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory
• How memory improvement techniques can improve note-making skills
• Accessing Critical Thinking skills through mental maps
• Curriculum coverage: properties of metals, alternative energy sources, plant parts and functions, the periodic table, fossil fuels, the digestive system, energy transfer and electricity, the electromagnetic spectrum, acid rain and weathering

Benefits

• Developing a detailed understanding of accelerated learning principles
• Understanding in more depth how accelerated learning techniques can be applied to specific areas of the curriculum
• Creating lesson plans and ideas based on different learner needs
• Generating new and lasting approaches to teaching science at secondary level

Logistics

The presenter of this course will require a screen, a CD player, a bottle of water, and a room of eager minds. The course is suitable to groups of up to 100 teachers.

Session 1: 9am – 11am

Session 2: 11:30 am – 1:30pm

Session 3: 2:00pm – 3:30pm