Transcript Parents and Guardians Guide

How to help you succeed
Student Guide
This is what previous students said they wanted
Rewards
and
Sanctions
Plan your
study time
Testing &
Checking
Exam
Success
Be
creative
Diet
Planning
• What is your
exam schedule?
• Organisation of
time.
• Schedule
organised in
advance of time.
Rewards and Sanctions
• Used to them at school – ask your parents to help set
them up
• Praise is better than the stick
Testing
• Test yourself on
passages they have
learned.
– Ask them how do they
know they have learned
something.
• Key facts.
• Format of all your
exams?
Diet
• Brain foods
• Hydration
• Caffeine
• Sleep
Exams & Revision
Nobody likes them!
 Nobody enjoys the process of sitting an exam.
-age
-ability
-intelligence
 Pre-exam stress effects everybody.
 Preparation is vitally important.
 The idea of spending time preparing for
something you don’t like seems ridiculous.
We are trying to avoid the following:
Or this….
Or my favourite….
Why revise
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20
0
5 min
20 min
1 hr
7 hrs
24 hrs 7 days
31
days
I see what you mean.
I want a different perspective.
Let’s look at this closely.
Try to see things my way.
Things are looking up.
Turn a blind eye.
Visual
We’re on the same wavelength.
I hear what you’re saying.
Lost for words.
Sounds good to me.
Tone it down.
That’s music to my ears.
Auditory
I’m ready to tackle this head on.
I’ve got a feel for the place.
I need a hand.
Can you grasp the idea?
Let’s walk through this step by step.
They really rub me up the wrong way.
Kinaesthetic
Visual Learners:
Use visual materials such as pictures, charts, maps, graphs.
Use colour to highlight important points in text.
Make notes.
Use colour coding for notes.
Illustrate your ideas as a picture or brainstorming bubble before
writing them down.
Write a story and illustrate it.
Use multi-media (e.g. laptops, DVD’s, youtube, podcasts).
Study in a quiet place away from verbal disturbances.
Read illustrated books.
Visualise information as a picture to aid memorization.
Watch TV documentaries.
Auditory Learners:
Participate in discussions/debates about the topic you are trying to learn.
Make speeches and presentations.
Use a tape recorder to record your own notes.
Read text out loud.
Create musical jingles/raps to aid memorization.
Create mnemonics to aid memorization.
Discuss your ideas verbally with someone else.
Dictate to someone while they write down your thoughts.
Use verbal analogies, and story telling to demonstrate your point.
Kinaesthetic Learners:
Take frequent study breaks.
Move around to learn new things (e.g. read while on an exercise bike, or
walking).
Work at a standing position.
Put the main points on cards then sort in different ways.
Chew gum while studying.
Do demonstrations, role plays and acting.
Use drawings, write things down, draw diagrams.
Use bright colours to highlight reading material.
Dress up your work space with posters.
If you wish, listen to music while you study.
Use the process of look, cover, remember, write.
Skim through reading material to get a rough idea what it is about before
settling down to read it in detail.
Creativity
• Left side and right side brain gym activities
• What type of learner are they?
– Visual
– Auditory
– Kinaesthetic
• Revision in a creative way and fun way
– Podcasts
– Mindmaps
– Pathways around the house