Module One: Overview of the Five Learning Channels in TTLC
Whether you are aware of them or not, learning styles are influencing you right now! Learning styles indicate the natural ways your brain learns and remembers information. When you work with (rather than against your styles) you personalize your learning. Learning, then, becomes faster, easier, and more enjoyable.
Module Two: Brain-based Learning & the 5Cs
All learners need a "reason" to learn and be in school. Teachers need to have strategies and approaches that effectively engage all types of students in the 5 Learning Channels. You invest time with the 5Cs (compare, contrast, combine, conceptualize, comprehend) because we want teachers to understand what the brain actually does to create meaning and internalize information.
When encountering something new, your brain does certain things to understand it. It will naturally and automatically look for what is familiar (compare) and notice what is not familiar (contrast). You then have to have a "label" for that new knowledge, conceptualizing it. After a while with the new knowledge, you comprehend it and the knowledge has gone to your long-term memory. You then figure out ways to use the knowledge (combine) in your life.
Knowing how the 5Cs work is important because everyone's brain does the same thing to learn. When teachers apply this knowledge to their lessons, and use the ideas behind the Compelling Whys, students will learn more completely.
Module Three: Sensory Styles Introduction
You have looked at the Compelling Whys that students have for being in school, and for learning. You have also learned the process that the brain uses to internalize new knowledge (the 5Cs).
Some of you prefer to use certain senses over others when you take in information that you must learn and remember. But, why is it that you remember some things and not others? It has everything to do with the brain, and how the brain constructs both short and long-term memories.
In this module, you will learn about sensory styles and find out about our own preferences for the ways in which you take in information through your senses.
Module Four: Students' Sensory Styles
In the previous module, you had an opportunity to consider your own sensory preferences. You learned that you use all of your senses to learn and remember new information. You now will turn your attention to your students and explore their sensory preferences. You will examine the ways in which you can appeal to those sensory modalities in your teaching and meet their sensory needs in the lessons you create.
Module Five: GASC Introduction
During the learning process, students need to have reasons to learn and participate (Compelling Whys). On the flip side, teachers need to have their own Compelling Whys met as well as present their instruction through the sensory modalities (KTAV) to meet their students' needs. As a teacher, you can do that through the 5C lessons you design and implement.
While you learn, your senses take information into your brain. Your brain, then, has to perceive and organize that information in order for you to comprehend it. During the fourth Learning Channel, GASC, you will explore the ways in which information is processed perceptually (global or concrete), and the ways in which information is processed to organize it (abstract or sequential). You will learn about your own GASC preferences and the combination of GASC that are found in schools and classrooms.
Module Six: Students' GASC
In the last module, you explored the GASC learning channel. You probably found that, like your sensory preferences (KTAV), you tend to teach in your GASC style. Your students have both perceptual and organizational preferences too, and use the same combinations of styles to create meaning out of information. Your students' Compelling Whys can be addressed when you include activities that meet their GASC styles.
In this module, you will discover how you can design better instruction and activities to meet your students' GASC needs.
Module Seven: Temperament Styles
Your final Learning Channel is one of the most intriguing of all - Temperament Styles.
You will recall that this channel is based on the styles first defined and delineated by Carl Jung, and later identified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The Myers-Briggs indicates your basic temperament style and describes how you respond to the world around you. You already know that you respond to your environment through your sensory preferences and your organizational and perceptual preferences as well.
In the previous modules you have learned how Compelling Whys, Sensory, Perceptual, and Organizational styles are channels for learning. Your 5C lessons include Compelling Whys, KTAV, and GASC.
In this module, you will explore the ways that Temperament Styles (TS) influence learning, and connect what you have learned about brain physiology, memories, emotions, sensory learning styles, and cognitive style to temperament style. You will also design a new lesson to meet the temperament needs of your students.
Module Eight: Our Journey Through the Learning Channels
You have been on a seven week journey of discovery and have come to the final module of our course. You have discussed Compelling Whys, brain-compatible lesson designs (5Cs), sensory learning, perceptual and organizational styles, temperament, completed activities for your own experiences, and have come almost full circle.
Module 8 is all about what you have learned and putting together all of the Learning Channel pieces.