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SUPPORTING LEARNING AND REVISION
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Active Learning
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Learning Styles and Methods
ACTIVE LEARNING
Encourage your child to ACTIVELY learn
rather than PASSIVELY learn
ACTIVE LEARNING
Where possible - help provide the right resources for your child to work:
post-it notes, pen, ruler, paper, scissors & glue,
internet access if you have it, dictionary,
highlighter pens, coloured pens, revision
guides, revision CDs and podcasts
ACTIVE LEARNING
We learn:
• 10% of what we read
• 20% of what we hear
• 30% of what we see
• 40% of what we see and hear
• 70% of what is discussed
• 95% of what we teach to someone else
This means that the
best
method of learning is
having to explain or
teach a
topic to someone else.
LEARNING STYLES AND METHODS
VISUAL LEARNERS
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Recopy notes – then condense in particular colours
Visually organise or reorganise notes using columns,
categories, outline forms, etc.
Remember where information was located in visual field
Create timelines, models, charts, grids, etc.
Write/rewrite facts, formulas, notes on wall-hanging,
bedsheet, poster for visual review at any time
Facts, formulas, notes on index cards
arranged/rearranged on wall, pin-board, floor, bed
VISUAL LEARNERS
Use colour-coded markers or cards for previous
two above
 Use visual mnemonics
 Remember information by drawing out mindmaps
 TV/video supplements important for
understanding or remembering
 Use "background" visual activity helps you to
concentrate
 Use highlighters
 Near memorisation of chapter/notes
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AUDITORY LEARNERS
Discuss concepts/facts/aspects with friend
immediately after new learning
 Revise with friend(s) by trying to teach them the
information
 Tape records lesson or notes for re-listening later
 Say facts/formulas/information over and over to
retain
 Simultaneous talk and walk whilst studying
 Set information to rhyme, rhythm, music, football
chants, to aid retention
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AUDITORY LEARNERS
Aural Mnemonics
 Remember where information was located in
auditory field (e.g. tagged to "who said that?")
 Use of different voices to study (like creating a
script, or acting out a play)
 TV/video/radio supplements useful for obtaining
information
 Create your own podcast and listen without taking
notes
 Prefer group discussion and/or study groups
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KINAESTHETIC STYLE
Copy notes over and over to make them neat or
organised
 Prefers to take notes during lesson as an aid to
concentration
 Must take notes, even when detailed outline is
distributed
 Simultaneous talking-walking, talking-exercising
study, or walking-reading study
 Move hands or feet for rhythm emphasis while
remembering information
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KINAESTHETIC LEARNING
Trace key words with finger, marker, hand
 Re-enact situations while studying
 Act out information in the form of play (using
different characters for different topics)
 Constructs (e.g. house of cards, blocks, etc.) to
remember information
 Plan a revision game on the computer/board
game
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FOR ALL LEARNING STYLES
Ensure you practise on Past Papers
 Get hold of the exam board mark schemes and
examiners reports
 Use grade boundaries to check your progress
 Don’t just revise topics you are confident in
 Use your teacher as much as possible
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STUDENT ADVICE
PARENT ADVICE
SUPPORTING SUCCESS