Week 2
Huh? Tips to Memorizing Content
- Review, review, review
- It takes 15 to 30 minutes of practice over several days to memorize and maintain information.
- When learning something new, review daily for 3 to 4 days.
- Draw
- Using colors and shapes helps the brain remember.
- Draw a colorful picture of what you are trying to learn.
Source: Roland Barth, Educators as Learners: Creating a Professional Learning Community in Your School. |
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- Rhymes and Songs
- Use rhyme, rhythm, and repetition to recall learned information.
- Practice information to a familiar song or tune to enhance auditory memory.
- Create a beat, a jingle, or a rap using learned information.
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- Lights, Camera, Action!
- Role-play or act out what you are trying to learn.
- Move your body. Be it. Feel it.
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Source: brain.web-us.com/memory/mnemonic_techniques.htm |
Remember the Facts Poem
To remember a fact you need to know
Sing it, move it, or see it as you go.
If you need just one more way
Write it, draw it, or act it out one day.
This will ham up your act
And help you remember each awesome fact!
Source: Carolyn Chapman and Rita King. (2000). Test Success in the Brain-Compatible classroom. Zephyr Press. Tucson, AZ.
Links
http://www.studygs.net/memory/
Article: Enhancing School Success with Mnemonic Strategies
http://www.ldonline.org/article/5912
Article: Using Mnemonic Instruction To Teach Math
http://www.ldonline.org/article/13717
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