Brain-based language training is deep-rooted, deep-sated and embedded for long-term learning. While learning to write a report, students are given the task of finding the most interesting, emotionally-intensive event to write about during their experiential learning program during the March Holidays.
This calls into mind what the brain remembers the most through the acrostic – PERSONAL. It represents the core principles of facilitating and accelerating memory embedment of new concepts and it reads:
P – Personal
E – Emotional
R – Repetitive
S – Special Events
O – Extra-Ordinary
N – New Events
A – Attention
L – Last/First time
So when there was an incident involving a mini-collision between 2 segways, students had a chance to write about that ‘accident’ as a news-worthy event in their news report activity! They experienced it first-hand (personal), it was slightly harrowing (emotional), they had been taught news report before (repetitive), it was a special, one-time event and they had never experienced it before (first time).
As a result of this brain-based learning, the report below was generated.
The report is an unedited student’s copy. Notice the control of language, wide use of vocabulary and perference of active voice over passive. This can only come easily from an actual, real-world experience.
Nothing beats the real thing!
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