Heart of the City
SchoolstoBusiness
VAK Challenge
Heart of the City
SchoolstoBusiness
VAK Challenge
VAK Challenge
VAK Challenge
Agenda
• Into Teams – if required – TEAM
NAME!
• VAK – Introduction and Revision
Hints and Tips
• VAK – Team Challenge!
• Prize Giving
Team Name
Take a few minutes to think of a name
for your team.
Hint - your company name could be a
thing – Apple – or your initials AMSTRAD
(Alan Michael Sugar Trading) – or
something to do with your school or
your class.
VAK Introduction and Team Challenge!
• The objectives of this first session are to:
– Improve the way you learn and how you
communicate
– Learn about the best ways to understand and
enjoy school work; become more successful at
school and in later life
– Have some fun while working in your teams
VAK Introduction and Team Challenge!
• How do I Like to Learn?
• Complete the worksheet
• Add up the total of V, A and K responses
and total at the bottom
• Are you mainly V, A or K or a mixture?
VAK Introduction and Team Challenge!
• What does the ‘V’ in VAK stand for?
VAK Introduction and Team Challenge!
• What does the ‘V’ in VAK stand for?
• Answer – VISUAL
• VISUAL LEARNERS MAY SAY ‘I SEE WHAT YOU MEAN’
– TRY TO VISUALISE WHAT YOU ARE LEARNING
• ‘SEE’ THE WORDS BEFORE WRITING OR SAYING THEM
– TRY TO MEMORISE YOUR NOTES BEFORE TESTS / EXAMS – RIGHT UP
THE POINT OF ENTERING THE EXAM HALL
• CREATE PICTURES / DIAGRAMS FROM WHAT YOU ARE LEARNING, E.G.
MIND MAPS
VAK Introduction and Team Challenge!
• What does the ‘A’ in VAK stand for?
VAK Introduction and Team Challenge!
• What does the ‘A’ in VAK stand for?
• Answer – AUDITORY
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AUDITORY LEARNERS MAY SAY ‘THAT SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT’
TO IMPROVE YOUR LEARNING YOU COULD READ ALOUD TO YOURSELF
EXPLAIN THE SUBJECT TO ANOTHER STUDENT
MAKE A RECORDING OF KEY POINTS TO LISTEN TO ON THE WAY TO YOUR
TEST OR EXAM
VAK Introduction and Team Challenge!
• What does the ‘K’ in VAK stand for?
VAK Introduction and Team Challenge!
• What does the ‘K’ in VAK stand for?
• Answer – KINAESTHETIC
• KINAESTHETIC LEARNERS MAY SAY ‘ THAT FEELS RIGHT’
• WE ARE ALL KINAESTHETIC LEARNERS TO SOME DEGREE – BABIES DON’T
LEARN TO WALK BY READING A BOOK!
• TO IMPROVE YOUR LEARNING YOU COULD RECORD INFORMATION AS YOU
HEAR IT, MAYBE IN A MIND MAP
• OR WRITE KEY POINTS ON INDEX CARDS AND SORT THEM INTO ORDER –
WORK WITH THE INFORMATION
VAK Introduction and Team Challenge!
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We are now starting the CHALLENGE!
The Challenge will test your various learning styles
There is a PRIZE for the best team
Our classroom teacher will be the JUDGE!
VAK Introduction and Team Challenge!
• The first part of the CHALLENGE will test your teams
AUDITORY learning style
• You will be given one sheet of A4 to write your
answers down after I have read you a short passage
• No Cheating – you will lose all of your points
• I will now read the passage – listen carefully as I will
say this only once!
VAK Introduction and Team Challenge!
• You will now be given one sheet of A4 to write your
answers down
• Write your team name on the sheet
• Don’t shout out your answers – other teams will hear
• I will now read the questions – listen carefully as I
will read these only once!
VAK Introduction and Team Challenge!
• The second part of the CHALLENGE will test your
teams VISUAL learning style
• You will be given a map of Langdon’s Island to
memorise. You will be given 5 minutes – work as a
team.
• No Cheating – you will lose all of your points
• Don’t turn the map over until I say – this will give
every team the same chance
VAK Introduction and Team Challenge!
• You will now be given one sheet of A4 and coloured
pencils to draw your map
• Write your team name on the map
• Don’t cheat by looking at other teams
• You have 10 minutes
VAK Introduction and Team Challenge!
• The third part of the CHALLENGE will test your teams
KINAESTHETIC learning style
• You will be given a newspaper and a roll of ‘sellotape’ to
produce a TOWER where a rescue helicopter will land.
You will have 15 minutes - work as a team.
• The winning team will have the tallest tower capable for
the helicopter (aka my mobile phone!) to land safely.
• You also need to say where you would LOCATE your
tower
VAK Introduction and Team Challenge!
• PRIZE TO THE WINNING TEAM
Notes about the Content
These lesson plans have been provided as part of a
collaborative project led by Heart of the City.
Contributors include: Bank of America Merrill Lynch, BT,
Business in the Community, City Action, City of London
Corporation, Clifford Chance, Deloitte, East London
Business Alliance, Heart of the City, KPMG, Linklaters,
Newham Education Business Partnership, Nomura,
Sapphire Systems Plc, Tower Hamlets Education
Business Partnership, UBS Ltd.
The lessons were developed by Miken Associates UK
Limited.