Achieving mindful learning

Abstract

SPICES sought to give these guidelines a strong pedagogical grounding so as to ensure that the tools and ideas presented in this handbook will take into consideration the diversity of learners that will be using these guidelines. These guidelines have two main influences. The first is the pedagogical model for ensuring a conducive learning environment (Calleja 2005, Tomlinson 1999) and the second is the Let Me Learn Processâ„¢ (Johnston 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003), a process which helps give precise and accurate information about the learning needs of individuals to help the SPICES trainer shape and improve the trainee's competence by short-circuiting the randomness and inefficiency of trial and error learning (Sadler 1989).