Key Principals of Intuitive Learning

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• All learners are teachers – all teachers are learners.

• All true processes of teaching are processes of learning.

• All learners are powerfully gifted in one realm or another.

• All learners have strengths and weaknesses – learn to leverage strengths.

• All learning is self-motivated.

• When a teacher teaches, she needs to “learn” the student.

• To learn is to activate (vitalize) your intuitional giftedness.

• School should be a place to manifest your giftedness and show what you know.

• Demonstrations, displays and performances of learning drive discipline – discipline drives learning.

• Success in life is marketing your inherent giftedness.

• Education should be an opportunity to demonstrate your gifts of creativity.

• Listening is the most fundamental learning tool and the learner must learn to incline their ear to not only hear but also listen.

• Thinking, feeling and willing give rise to the learning tools of visualizing, vocalizing, and vitalizing.  The 3 V’s.

• True human interest drives learning.  Interest in another is the beginning of compassion and love.

• Philosophy and Psychology of Intuitive Learning:  A child is a being of body, soul and spirit.  Each component activates is counterpart in the psychological makeup of the learner (body) willing, (soul) feeling and (spirit) thinking.

• Thinking is the cognitive domain of educators (Bloom’s Taxonomy), feeling is the affective domain (Kohlberg), and willing is the psychomotoric domain, or the realm of authentic experiential learning.

• Direction of Learning:  All learning proceeds from the realm of willing (doing-experiencing) to the realm of feeling (affective) and then finally to thinking (cognitive).

• We must not separate teaching and learning – they are one process.

• Don’t teach – learn – then the students will model your learning patterns.

• Teachers tend to assess to check their teaching effectiveness.  Learners show the knowledge they have learned by demonstrations, displays and performances.  Tests measure teaching effectiveness not learning.

• Children go through phases of development that are sequential but not necessarily chronological.

• Learn to observe the student until they become your activation of learning.

• Use every tool available to activate learning.

• Cognitive knowledge without activation of the will is deadly boring.

• High stakes cognitive testing dumbs down learning – creating new knowledge activates all parts of the learner.

• Learning is capacity (faculty) building not memorizing.

• Experiential learning invites inner questions that lead to vocations (callings).
  

 Characteristics of an Intuitive Learner? 

• Open to the world and others and filled with wonder and awe for everyone and every natural process.
• Filled with true human interest for every person they meet.
• Convinced that every person they encounter has something significant to teach them.
• Convinced that every person is a key player in his or her growth and development.
• Possess a strong talent for listening to the heart of anyone speaking, not just the words.
• Maintains a firm belief that all people are good at heart.
• Takes in new knowledge everyday.
• Is an apprentice to all other learners.
• Sorts through incoming knowledge to distill the wisdom found therein.
• Loves to facilitate and help others learn.
• Never places anyone below them.
• Firmly believes that the potential of every person will come to fruition.
• Refrains from jumping to conclusions.
• Wants to hear all versions of a story before a judgment is reached.
• Looks everywhere to find new knowledge or a new perspective.
• Their face “lights up” when excited about learning.
• Finds learning to be seemingly effortless.
• Makes the most of every educable moment.
• Loves to read and find new pieces to the puzzle of life.
• Collaborates with others and shares research and knowledge.
• Wishes to share the insight and inspiration of learning with others.
• Seeks new learning experiences to enhance their perspective.
• Possesses a strong desire to grow and develop throughout life.
• Does not limit the power and effectiveness of learning.
• Seeks and finds new way of transferring or applying the knowledge gained.
• Synthesizes diverse opinions into a comprehensive whole.
• Has taken their self-development into their own hands.