Learning Coach Unit Introduction created in partnership between, Carmarthenshire County Council and Coleg Sir Gar's Virtual College as part of Carmarthenshire 14-19.

1. Learning Coach Training
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Delivering Learning Coaching
Functions in an Organisation
Session Three

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According to Howard Gardner,
Learning ‘understandings involve a mix of mental
representations, entailing different
Styles intelligences’. Gardner identifies at least
seven intelligences, and it is now thought
that there are at least eight.
VAK
Questionnaire Try assessing
your own
balance of
Multiple intelligences by
Intelligences completing the
wheel questionnaire

3. Turning to the left or the right?
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Turning anti-clockwise? Turning clockwise?
The left side
The right side
of your brain
of your brain is
is dominant
dominant
(most
(less
common).
common).

4. Left side Right side
4
Logical, details are Use feelings; need to
important; facts rule; know the whole picture;
words and language imagination rules;
are important; present symbols and images are
and past; mathematics important; present and
and science; need future; understand space
order; practical; prefer and shape; believe;
safety. consider possibilities;
prepared to take risks.

5. 5
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Dominance

6. 6
6
Dominance
Profiles

7. 7
The
eye

8. 8
The
ear

9. 9
The
hand

10. 10
The
foot

11. 11
What is
your
profile?

12. 12
 We are all different
 We have different learning preferences
Consideration  Teachers tend to have a preference for
of Learning delivery
Styles  We need to be conscious that some
pupils may not be ‘hard-wired’ to learn
in the way that we deliver lessons
 If we can adapt to deliver in a variety of
styles, it is more likely that pupils will
learn better