Transcript Welcome to YR11 Information Evening Revision Techniques

Welcome to YR11
Information Evening
Revision Techniques,
timetables, learning styles
with
Delma Allen, Head of English
Beckie Heavens, Head of Student
Mentoring
Aims:
• To help you understand how different learning
styles can affect how you learn.
• Revision techniques to help you support your
child.
• How to construct a revision timetable.
Learning Styles
• Visual Audio
Kinaesthetic
• Do you recognise your
child’s learning style?
Visual Learner Characteristics
Visual learners are those who learn
through seeing things.
• Is good at spelling.
• Likes colors & fashion.
• Dreams in colour.
• Understands/likes charts, diagrams.
• Is good with sign language.
Visual Learners Can use the
following to succeed:
• visual materials such as pictures, charts, maps,
graphs, etc.
• use colour to highlight important points in text
• Illustrate ideas as a picture or mind map before
writing them down
• use multi-media (e.g. computers, videos, and
filmstrips)
• study in a quiet place away from verbal disturbances
• visualize information as a picture to aid memorization
Auditory Learner Characteristics
• Auditory learners are those who learn best
through hearing things.
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Likes to read to self out loud.
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Is good at explaining.
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Remembers names.
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Notices sound effects in movies.
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Enjoys music.
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Is good at grammar and foreign language.
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Follows spoken directions well.
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Can't keep quiet for long periods.
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Enjoys acting, being on stage.
Auditory Learners Can use the following
to help revision:
• Use word association to remember facts and
lines.
• Watch videos.
• Repeat facts with eyes closed.
• Participate in group discussions.
• Use audiotapes for language practice.
• Tape notes after writing them.
Kinesthetic Learner Characteristics
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Kinesthetic learners are those who learn through experiencing/doing
things.
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Is good at sports.
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Can't sit still for long.
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Are not great at spelling.
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Does not have great handwriting.
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Studies with loud music on.
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Likes adventure books, movies.
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Likes role playing.
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Likes to take lots of breaks when studying.
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Builds models.
Kinesthetic Learners Can use the
following to help revision:
• take frequent study breaks
• move around to learn new things (e.g. read
while on an exercise bike, mold a piece of clay
to learn a new concept)
• work at a standing position
• chew gum while studying
• use bright colors to highlight reading material
• dress up work space with posters
• listen to music while studying
How would you?
• Revise how to calculate a percentage? If you
were an auditory learner?
• Revise the periodic table if you were a visual
learner?
• Revise the features of a speech if you were a
kinestetic learner?
Revision techniques
Beckie Heavens
• Getting organise by:
• Clearing a space, getting the right equipment;
• Check you have the right materials to revise
from.
• Create an visual overview of your subject to
revise (see your teachers for help eg Maths)
Making a Revision Timetable
What to fill it in with…
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Be realistic.
Plan regular breaks
Break subjects into smaller topics
Make sure you cover all topics
Include important dates: Coursework deadlines;
after school activities etc.
And lastly…
• Look after yourself – eat well and get plenty of
sleep.
• Work when you feel most alert – even if it is late
at night!
• Plan relaxation time.
• Ask for help – very very very important – so
many want to!!
• Believe in yourself, be positive and do your best.