10 Ways to Enhance Memory for Children!

1. 10 Ways to Enhance Memory for Children!

2. Introduction • You may wonder how you manage to remember information for a test. • Parents often worry how well their children are learning and whether schools are meeting educational standards. • Parents and teachers have big dreams that their children and students should become successful in their life. • But, whether you succeed or not, all depends on this one aspect: your mind. • Your mind matters and what matters more is your memory.

3. Adding Emotion • Anything taught with the element of emotion will be easily retained in our memory. • This means students are likely to recall information that induces an emotional response. • Teachers can use this tactic in English, History and Science classes. • For example: if the lesson is on galaxy, the teacher can induce emotions in the students by showing them videos or pictures of the galaxy and stars.

4. Reading, writing and recollecting • Anything which is read out loudly will enhance your retention than just reading it. • Writing down the important points or facts will help in retention and will be useful while studying for exams. • Recollecting is the ability to retain the information after reading and writing. • If you have encoded the information efficiently then you will be able to retrieve the information.

5. Rehearsal • It is said ‘Practice makes a man perfect’, therefore, rehearsing information till you master any concept is very important. • Rehearsal improves your memory and gets etched onto your long-term memory. • Also, rehearsing the right information is essential because unlearning the inaccurate information which is passed on to the long-term memory will be a challenging task. • Hence, practice over time and ace your exams without cramming all information in one night.

6. Give meaning • If there is any subject which has many names, dates and figures; then it is always better to associate these facts with something. • Giving meaning to meaningless concepts or information through ways such as poems, mnemonics, music and rhythm will improve retention of this information for future use. • Nevertheless, you can use an aid such as chunking which plays a significant role in enhancing the short term memory transfer to long term memory. • Chunking numbers, colours or aspects in groups helps in remembering and learning the concepts faster.

7. Make connections • It is vital to make connections or associations between the new information and the previously learnt information. The higher the number of associations made, the more chances of retaining that information easily and this in turn induces your memory power through which you can retrace the information easily.

8. Avoid distractions • While studying, choose a quiet and peaceful environment, comfortable seating and table, bright light, proper ventilation and avoid distracting things around you. • Here, distracting elements include anything that diverts your attention, for instance: video games, T.V., music player, phones, and the like. • While studying, if distraction persists then encoding the information suffers leading to forgetting. • Hence, for encoding to be efficient you shouldn’t give ways to distraction instead concentrate and give maximum attention to avoid the inability to retrieve information.

9. Get some rest • Take a break between learnings. You have heard that ‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’, so take breaks after few hours of studying and relax your mind. • Not only breaks but physical exercise and sound sleep strengthens your ability to retain the information. • Sleep is very crucial to boost your memory. Sleep helps us learn new information and pass the information to the long-term memory. • However, for most of the problems including imbalance of mind and body, stress, preparing for exams- the best prescription commonly given is get some sleep! So, say goodbye to cramming all night.

10. Teach others to help you revise better • Whatever you have learnt will be useful when you share that knowledge to another person. • So, one of the best ways to learn is to teach what you’ve learnt to another person. • This is the reason why teachers have mastered the concepts they teach because they have to teach the same lessons and concepts to many batches in school. Adding to this, if the concepts are thought using real life stories and examples or experiments, then the students are likely to remember them for life because anything visual stimulates our attention and learning takes place faster.

11. Questioning enhances learning • Asking questions like why, how, what helps in learning concepts well because here the reasoning, thinking and analysis is involved. • Anything which triggers our mental processors helps in learning the concepts faster and better. Finding answers to these questions makes memory work out as all the mental processors are involved making the memory charged and active. • Besides, another way to ask question is by taking the quizzes or tests which will help in reasoning and in a way enhance your memory power. • Here, the end process will be getting feedback from the tests which plays a vital role in knowing what is right and what is wrong. • All this collectively heightens your memory power because your brain is at its maximum functionality.

12. Conclusion • If these procedures are followed anyone can learn anything quickly and retrace the information efficiently. • However, all these procedures have to be followed in a systematic way and one shouldn’t end up multi-tasking. • The reason is because our brain processes and stores the information systematically. • If your little one do as more smarter and active visit the Best CBSE School in Tirupur.