Outlined below is a recap of the eight core components of Quantum Learning (FADE/PFLL), Big Brain Ideas, Music and the 8 Keys:
FADE
- FOUNDATION – The 8 Keys of Excellence: Introduce and establish the 8 Keys as a classroom initiative. Tie them in with your content whenever possible. Bring them to life for your students.
- ATMOSPHERE – Tenets: Acknowledge Every Effort is one of the five QL Tenets. Teach your students several ways to give acknowledgements to each other for effort (whoosh, finger snaps, and others you learned), then encourage them to think up acknowledgements and demonstrate them. Be consistent with this tenet. Remember to acknowledge every student’s effort in some way!
- DESIGN – The Success Model: Remember how this was modeled during juggling, the narrative chain, and for all the main content of QL? We build willingness to risk and decrease difficulty of content when we chunk information and continually do VAK reviews. Teach a concept to the whole group (low risk), have them break into small groups or pairs to review with partners, then ask for individual performance, which can range from asking a volunteer to go over the content in front of the room to taking a test.
- ENVIRONMENT – Peripherals and Affirmation Posters: For example, Today became great when YOU arrived! and posters of the 8 Keys of Excellence.
PFLL
- PRESENTATION – Location Anchors: Teach specific content from a specific location in your classroom. Remember the narrative chain? Each item/concept was taught from a different spot of the room. When we reviewed, we went back to those locations again.
- FACILITATION – Callbacks: Use callbacks to capture and hold attention and reinforce critical content. Remember, only ask for KEY words and concepts to be called back by the students.
- LEARNING SKILLS – Narrative Chain: Attach motions (or actions) to key content and LINK information together in a story format to promote curiosity, discovery, memory, and to provide experience before label. Check your Bonus pages for ideas.
- LIFE SKILLS – The 8 Keys of Excellence: Every day overview of the 8 Keys (with the motions) and focus on a specific key such as Integrity. You could focus on a key a week or a key a month.
The page in your manual entitled The Quantum Learning System Core Components: Level 1 Moves Recap expands on this list.
Big Brain Ideas!
Remember the Three Big Brain Ideas? Great! There Is No Comprehension Without Picturing reminds us to make content more visual – and, therefore, more meaningful – for students. And the fact that Students Make Meaning by Connecting to Existing Schema reminds us to know our students’ schema before we add to it! Finally, employing VAK-style reviews again and again causes a physical change in the brain (neurons firing and wiring) that supports new information going into long-term memory. (See Three Big Brain Ideas in your manual.)
Music
At the training you learned by experience the power of music. You’ll learn more about its use in upcoming levels, but you can start now to use music to promote different learning states and to keep students engaged. Music taps into the emotional center of the brain and engages as well as promotes memory. Baroque music is especially helpful during study and test taking. Remember to use music with lyrics (that you have checked out first) only for breaks and transition times, not for background music while students are engaged in a learning activity. (Refer to CASE of Music pages in your manual.)
8 Keys
Implement the 8 Keys of Excellence. They set a powerful foundation for your Quantum Learning classroom. The Keys build your students' character as they become excellent students! (Review the pages on the 8 Keys of Excellence in your manual.)