What is the Let Me Learn Process?

The Let Me Learn Process is an advanced learning system that is based on the idea that every learner is unique. This process helps learners understand and express the way in which they prefer to learn. These preferred methods of learning are exhibited in our outward actions, in the way we approach learning tasks, and also in the way we perceive and interpret the world around us.

The strength of the Let Me Learn Process lies in the fact that it helps us become independent learners. This process takes us through a metacognitive journey in which we equip ourselves with learning strategies thus helping us go through the learning process with intention.

Let Me Learn starts with the understanding that all learning is an interactive process of thinking doing and feeling. This interactive process reveals itself in four learning patterns:

• Sequence
• Precision
• Technical Reasoning
• Confluence

How did the Let Me Learn Process Start?

The Let Me Learn Process, developed by Prof. Christine Johnston of Rowan University in the early 1990’s, has been used to explore ‘learning’ within a number of educational organisations. The process has since spread across the United States and across Europe, including Malta. Malta can be considered as a co-developer of the Let Me Learn Process since we participated in the initial developments of the Learning Connections Inventory and its validation. Malta was one of the first countries that started using the inventory to implement learning strategies which fit the learning profile of each child. After the initial contacts in 1996, a series of developments and awareness lectures were held around the islands. This led up to the first group of Maltese teachers being trained in the LML process in 1999.

The Benefits of Let Me Learn

The Let Me Learn Process helps educators to understand their learners better and consequently prepare lessons that suit diverse learning needs of the students.

Administrators can use the LML Process in order to foster effective team work among staff members as well as to give the necessary support to educators implementing the process.

Students benefit by learning how to use strategies in order to cope with various tasks and assignments. This process helps students develop the skills required for life-long learning.

The LML Process also helps parents understand how their children prefer to learn, enabling them to facilitate the learning process.