Approaches

Here we provide you with ideas for different approaches.

We define Move & Learn approaches as:

“Part of a learning sequence that directly or indirectly incorporates an appropriate type of physical activity to enhance the learner’s development.”

Remember, it’s as much about learning as it is about movement. As we discuss in our training and book, to make learning purposeful you need to consider whether to incorporate movement through activators and/or energisers.

Click on View Activators or View Energisers below to see our different approaches. You can also add your own idea to share with our online community for an Activator or Energiser if you have one.

Direct Purpose

Movement can be used to directly activate learning
in the following ways:

• Retrieval of previous Knowledge
• Collection of new knowledge
• Modelling of new knowledge, skills & understanding
• Connection of own & others ideas
• Creation of something new

InDirect Purpose

Movement breaks can be used to indirectly
energise & support learning by:

• Reducing sedentary time
• Allowing learners to re-focus & therefore increase overall time on task
• Break up complex learning into ‘mini’ lessons