UCANDO seminars

Mrs Nola Kilpatrick, Deputy Rector – Curriculum

This week our Year 9 students have been entertained and challenged by Mr Stuart Wright of UCANDO. Stuart delivered a two hour programme on whole brain learning and taught them effective strategies and techniques for better learning.  Ask your sons to explain the 10, 1, 1, 1 Review Schedule (10 minutes, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month) which reinforces the importance of homework and regular study – of learning little but often if you want to remember something. You might also like to ask your sons to repeat the grocery list or the Chinese words or the name of the 1987 cyclone in Fiji!  Most students were also fascinated with his life – sized model of the brain and how small it really is but how its capacity for learning is limitless.

On Thursday night he addressed a large number of parents and presented a variety of ways to SCAR information into the memory using multi sensory techniques and that the best way to learn something is to teach it. He told those present that, “We remember 20% of what we read, 30% of what we see, 40% of what we hear, 50% of what we say, 60% of what we do BUT 90% of what we see, hear, say and do. (Colin Rose “Accelerated Learning”).

Several parents at the seminar asked questions about our policy on homework at the presentation: click here for our homework guidelines.