Academic Teacher Resources

1. IMPROVE YOUR MEMORY AND RECALL Academic Teacher Resources Student Planner and Study Guide

2. Develop Memory and Recall • Once you gain knowledge it is likely you will forget information over time • If you revise that knowledge you can regain the data again • Continuous revision can recall data faster and longer

3. Develop Memory and Memory Skills • We forget what we learn very quickly. • We remember things much better if we (1)go over them very soon after we first learnt them.

4. Recall Fact: • If you are to revise that knowledge once gained, then you will be able to (2)recall that data faster and retain information for a longer period of time.

5. Recall Information Over Time For The Typical Student Line 4 Line 6 Line 2 % Recall 1st Semester Exams Final Exams Topic Test Line 1 Line 5 Initial Knowledge Gained Revision Line 3 Time

6. Strategies to Retain and Recall Information • 9 Useful strategies a learner can use to retain and recall information when it is needed:

7. Acronyms • Forming an acronym is a (6)good strategy to remember information in any order that can be remembered.

8. Memory Triggers • Acronym – is a word that is formed from the (7)first letter of each fact to be remembered • For example: (8)Roygbiv

9. Memory Triggers • Acronyms Colours of the Rainbow

10. Memory Triggers • Mnemonics – similar to acronyms but instead of a word you (9) remember a phrase. • Usually the phrase is nonsense and the craziness of it helps you to remember it. • For example: The order of classification for living things: • K, P, C, F, O, G, S

11. Memory TriggersExample (1)

12. Memory TriggersExample (2) Kings play chess on fine grained sand