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Agenda – Key Stage 3 Guide to Study
Commitment required from pupilsHow to train your brainHow do you manage your time?Time management tools and
strategiesWhat is revision?Some revision techniques
Commitment required from pupils
Respect your ability and have HIGH expectations.
STUDY – 8 hours per week is required.Extra-curricular – ENJOY – but study
must come first!
What is “effective learning”?
Learning occurs through the brain in making
its own meaning, its own sense of things
We are all different..
(1) Recognise relationships
Try same concept from different angles in different ways: don’t just rote learn
Draw it, mime it, speak it, chart it, say it, sing it, demonstrate it, model it, list it, dance it, write it – DON’T JUST READ IT
(2) Help you to THINK
Work things out for yourselfArticulate ‘draft’ ideas – talk ideas through,
ask stupid questionsUse ‘trial and error’ as a learning strategyDon’t rely on ready made meanings and
notes – key word defns, mind maps, sketches, storyboards
“Intelligent behaviour is knowing what to do when you don’t know what to do”
“Humans never really understand or learn something until they can create a personal
model”
(3) Build experience
Learn from feedback – the brain is geared for feedback.
Research from different sources – textbooks, internet, CDs, TV programmes
Practice questions (on your own), write definitions over and over, repeat tests
How to remember things
The strength of a memory and how easily it is retrieved depends upon the strength of the initial input
When several senses are simultaneously involved the message is received through a number of channels in the brain and stand better chance of remaining prominent
People recall..
10%
20%
30%
50%
70%
90%
How do you manage your time?
Introducing five time management ‘types’
…… which one fits your approach to time management the best…..????
1. The Fireman
For YOU, every event is a crisis.
You're so busy putting out fires that you have no time to deal with anything else (especially the boring, mundane things such as time management).
Tasks pile up around you while you rush from fire to fire all day.
Tasks pile up around you while you rush from fire to fire all day.
2. The ‘Over-committer’
Your problem is you can't say 'No'.
All anyone has to do is ask, and you'll chair another committee, take on another project, or head out for an event…that you don’t really want to go to.
You're so busy you don't even have time to write down all the things you do!
You're so busy you don't even have time to write down all the things you do!
3. The ‘No worry’er
YOU need to realise there is such as thing as being too "laid-back"
- especially when it starts interfering with your ability to finish tasks or bother to do any homework (and ultimately affecting your grades!)
Getting to things when you get to them isn't time management; it's simple task avoidance.
Getting to things when you get to them isn't time management; it's simple task avoidance.
4. The Socialiser
You are born to socialise
You have astounding oral communication skills and can't resist exercising them at every opportunity.
Every interaction becomes a long drawn out conversation - especially if there's an unpleasant task dawning that you'd like to put off
Every interaction becomes a long drawn out conversation - especially if there's an unpleasant task dawning that you'd like to put off
5. The Perfectionist
You have a compulsion to cross all the "t's" and dot all the "i's", preferably with elaborate whorls and curlicues., and you feel that no rushed job can be a good job.
Exactitude is your watchword
Finishing tasks to your satisfaction is such a problem you need more time zones, not just more time.
Finishing tasks to your satisfaction is such a problem you need more time zones, not just more time.
Hopefully none…
But then, perhaps a little of some??
Time Management is a myth
You can’t manage time –
there is only ever 24 hrs
in the day.
You need to manage yourself and how
you use the time available
You need to manage yourself and how
you use the time available
Time management strategies
Some things to think about…You work best in daylight – make the most of
independent studyAre part time jobs the best use of your time
(weekends only?)Get enough sleepExercise is good for your brainGet a good routine
What is revision?
“The looking back over of one's (previously learnt or written) notes in preparation
for a test or examination”
“The looking back over of one's (previously learnt or written) notes in preparation
for a test or examination”
How to be a successful ‘reviser’..
How do you get:
From here.. To here...?
Start with the ‘helicopter’ view
Stand back from the course and develop an overview
Link topics and themes together – draw a spider diagram or mind map
Identify the specific aspects of each topic you are not sure about – start with these
Key Principles
Use colours – different colours for different subjects
Don’t rely on ready-made meanings and notes – you have to understand it
Use many different inputs and methods – your notes, different textbooks, internet (reliable sources)
Revision Techniques
- Questions and answers- Consolidate key facts- List of key definitions- Summarise a topic into your own words
(1) Flash Cards (Coloured)
Try and consolidate each subject down to 10 cards. Then go over and over them.
Revision Techniques
(2) Use diagrams or mnemonics
Revision Techniques
(3) Display key facts where you will see them- Write out key definitions or important words.
- Every time you see them think about what they say
- Change the facts every couple of days
Revision Techniques
(4) Explain a key concept to someone
-When you explain something to some one else, you have to get it clear in your head first
- You have to be clear and concise
Revision Techniques
(5) Location Learning
Associate key facts with locations (e.g. Journey into school.
Getting into car represents electrons leaving the battery having gained energy.........driving down the park represents the electrons transfering energy to a lamp in the circuit.....