Sessions

Shape Your Habits, Sharpen Your Memory

The inconsistent nature of motivation and willpower are often unreliable sources for successfully attaining goals. Learning outcomes are influenced by significant factors relating to study skills, memory processes and biological aspects of learning. This workshop aims to highlight these factors alongside current habit theories and approaches applicable for making necessary behavioral changes. It is anticipated that creatures of habit change, the participants, successfully engage and apply this knowledge to their teaching contexts and specific needs.

Brain-Friendly Study Skills for Teachers and Students: Memory and Language

Supported by findings from psychology and neuroscience, the workshop proposes a bottom-up, holistic approach to learning for you and your students. This session focuses on verbal short-term memory (vSTM). Smaller vSTM capacities make word acquisition harder. Natural language is learnt implicitly and ‘stochastically’, supporting fluency-based activities to compensate for such a memory bottleneck. This fun, interactive, and hands-on style workshop aims to help you confidently start applying brain-friendly solutions to your and your students’ learning.