Revision Skills Evening

1. Revision Skills Evening Thursday 8th November 2012

2. Aims… • To  build your child’s confidence, increase their motivation and help them to acquire the good learning habits which will lead to SUCCESS in their final exams • To give you and your child the opportunity to discuss revision and the various strategies to promote and support such independent study time

3. Last 6 months crucial- how do we make them count?

4. Discuss the ‘top 5 things’ that you feel are the starting point when planning revision.

5. Key tips to starting revision • Decide on the style of revision timetable you want • Plot in your exams first • Using the subject revision checklist start to plot in topics you must cover before the exam • Plan fun things too!

7. Key tips to starting revision Know how many papers there are for each subject: • Where? • When? • How long? • How many questions? Marks given. • Coverage?

8. Follow on • Organising a work place What is your work area like at present at home? • Key factors to consider: De-junking Resources Light Chair? Air Temperature Space Wall space

9. Other factors to consider • Distractions? • Music • Water • High energy foods • Sleep • Exercise (Brain Gym?) • Share goals with someone else- it will help you achieve them!

10. Brain Gym is a collection of special activities designed to ‘switch on’ the left and right brain for better learning and co-ordination. Lazy Eights Primary School tricks.... Exercise! They all work!

11. Kinaesthetically/ with others? Practical/ doing? How do you want to work/learn? Auditory? Visual?

12. Which way do you learn best? 2 minutes to discuss

13. Ways to revise to suit me Visual learners- learn by seeing • Represent the main facts/ concepts on a diagram or a timeline • Use highlighters • Trace words in the air • Use flashcards/ post its

15. Auditory learners- learn by hearing • Work with someone read aloud • Discuss • Try reading to yourself ‘under your breath’ • Devise questions to ask about the text and then question a friend about them • Make up a role play

16. Auditory learners- learn by hearing • Experiment with saying keywords out loud (emphasise the different parts of the word, using different voices) • Tape key points and play back • Make up a mnemonic to remember important facts (NESW)

18. Other top tips to help Come up with acrostics- an invented word with a first letter cue. E.g. 5 factors that explain Hitler’s rise to power Political manoeuvring 1932- 33, Depression, Weimar weaknesses, Nazi’s tactics and Hitler’s leadership Please don't whine now Hitler!

19. Kinaesthetic learners- learn by doing • Go for a walk or move around as you read the text • Write down the main points on card and then order them in a logical order or match up to definitions • Use ‘post-its’, assemble them on the wall in different areas. • Make up actions to go with key words.

20. Final top tips • Mind read examiners (consider recent questions asked) • Look at mark schemes • Self mark/ peer mark • Do Quizzes/ tests • Use SAMLearning/ VLE

21. Tell me- I’ll forget.Show me- I may remember.But involve me and I will understand.

22. Retention rates • Lecture- 5% • Reading- 10% • Audio- Visual- 20% • Demonstration- 30% • Discussion- 50% • Practice by doing- 75% • Teaching others- 90% Source: National Training Labs, Bethel, Maine

23. Any questions?