LEARNING STYLES

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Make Revision Fun!!
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Mnemonics
Memory Quiz How many words can you remember?
Star
Liverpool
Tower
Green
marshmallows
News reporter
Frog
helicopter
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Q for parents How were you taught to revise at
school?
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Flower
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Hole
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Car
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World
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Diet Coke
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Spiderman
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Shark
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Helicopter
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Mnemonics
Memory Quiz How many words can you remember?
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Making Learning A Priority
In terms of the next few months, place these
activities in order from 1 (the most important)
to 10 (the least important)   1. Socialising
with my friends 6. Earning some extra cash 2.
Looking after my appearance 7. Keeping
fit/playing sports 3. Planning my next summer
holiday 8. Spending time with partner 4.
Contributing towards local charitable projects 9.
Watching TV 5. Spending time with my
parents 10. Working toward my exams
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The Learning Toolkit
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Revising Diagrams
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Medicine in the Middle Ages AD 500 to1400
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Draw a period of History
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vademecum
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Beginning to Organise Your Time
Like being asked to recruit and train a football
team, or write and direct a play, or
organise an art exhibition, or market a
new pop-band, Preparing for GCSEs is best
viewed as a project that needs to be managed. An
important project management skill is the ability
to create good plans. When learning, this means
creating good study timetables.
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Manage your Revision Some Initial Questions
The best timetables are realistic and flexible.
When creating timetables, begin therefore by
answering some important questions   1. How
many days are there until my first exam or piece
of coursework? 2. What is the maximum amount of
time that I am willing to work on a typical
weekday, on a typical Saturday, and on a typical
Sunday? 3. Are there any dates between now and
each deadline when it will be very difficult or
impossible for me to work? 4. How many subjects
am I studying? 5. How many topics am I expected
to learn for each subject and how many pieces of
coursework must I complete?
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Study Skills
LEARNING?
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VAK
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VAK
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SENSORY MODES
VAK

• VISUAL

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SENSORY MODES
VAK

• AUDITORY

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SENSORY MODES
VAK

• KINESTHETIC

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Begin to learn something NEW or DIFFICULT in
your Strength.
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Mixed Modality

• Most of us use a combination of these three.

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Reinforce it in as many ways possible.
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Key Word Explained
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On the big day...

• Don't work all night before.
• Make sure you know where and when the exam is.
• Leave plenty of time to get there.
• Make sure you have all your equipment in advance.
  
• Avoid too much coffee and caffeine containing
  drinks
• Do some of the relaxation techniques so that you
  are calm and focused.
• Don't wind each other up with ideas of what might
  or might not come up in the exam

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On the big day...
Key stages in answering exam questions. 1 Scan
all the questions.2 Mark all the questions you
could answer.3 Read these questions carefully.
4 Choose the correct number (in each section).5
Decide on an order best answers first.6 Divide
up your time.7 Underline key words in the
question.8 Plan your answer.9 Stick to the
point of the question.10 Write your answer.11
Use the plan at every stage eg every
paragraph.12 Check your answer against the plan.
Look out for mistakes.13 If you have time,
re-read all your answers and make any necessary
corrections
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Mr Hinds' Top Five...
Top Five Handy Hints!
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Hinds Handy Hint number 1

• Use "Memory Maps" for complicated topics -
  use pictures and symbols that spring to your
  mind. Place finished memory maps above your desk
  just above eye level

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Hinds Handy Hint number 2

• Regularly test yourself in exam conditions

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Hinds Handy Hint number 3

• Give yourself regular breaks

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Hinds Handy Hint number 4

• Many people concentrate better with a little
  background music on - experiment - does it help
  you? If yes then DO IT!

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Hinds Handy Hint number 5

• Mobilise a friend - revise together - use each
  other to brainstorm how you approach certain
  questions, test each other.

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Reach for the Stars!!!
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Hinds Handy Hints
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• Regularly test yourself in exam condition
• When taking additional notes remember to try and
  interact with your notes. Consider the topic
  title, ask yourself what the notes made you think
  of, make connections.
• Give yourself regular breaks - the average
  attention span is about 15 minutes!!   Give
  yourself regular five minute breaks when you do
  something completely different e.g. listen to
  music, make a cup of tea -- you might want to use
  rewards e.g. I can have a chocolate biscuit if I
  learn this Memory map -- you'll get fat but it
  might help you learn
• Many people concentrate better with a little
  background music on - experiment - does it help
  you? if yes then DO IT
• Mobilise a friend - revise together - use each
  other to brainstorm how you approach certain
  questions, test each other.
• Always make sure there is a range of activities
  and aids to your revision
• Auditory - things you can listen do - other
  people, you could make revision tapes if you find
  the spoken word  more helpful than written
  revision cards
• Visual - things you can see - revision cards,
  memory maps etc
• kinaesthetic-  Don't just sit still all the time.
  many people learn well when they are moving
• Most Importantly START REVISING NOW!

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Visual

• Visually organise or reorganise notes using
  columns, categories, outline forms, etc
• Create timelines, models, charts, grids, etc.
• Write/rewrite facts, formulas, notes on
  wall-hanging, bedsheet, poster for visual review
  at any time
• Facts, formulas, notes on index cards
  arranged/rearranged on wall, pin-board, floor,
  bed
• Use of colour-coded markers or cards for previous
  two above
• Use of visual mnemonics
• TV/video supplements important for understanding
  or remembering
• Use of "background" visual activity helps you to
  concentrate
• Use of highlighters
• Near memorisation of chapter/notes

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AUDITORY
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• - Frequently does homework with friend(s) via
  telephone - seems to understand better and
  retain more
• - Tape records lesson or notes for re-listening
  later
• - Must say facts/formulas/information over and
  over to retain
• - Simultaneous talking-walking studying
• - Set information to rhyme, rhythm, or music to
  aid retention
• - Remember where information was located in
  auditory field (e.g. tagged to "who       said
  that?")
• - Use of different voices to study (like creating
  a script, or acting out a play)
• - TV/video/radio supplements useful for obtaining
  information
• - Prefer to listen without taking notes
• Prefer group discussion and/or study groups
• - Use of background music helps you to
  concentrate
• - Prefer quiet study environment

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Kinesthetic
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       Copy notes over and over, apparently to
make them neat or organised         Make
charts, grids, timelines, diagrams (usually
several times)         Trace key words with
finger, marker, hand         Re-enact
situations while studying         Constructs
things while studying (house of cards, blocks,
etc.)         Prefers learning by doing
        Frequently takes things apart, or
"tinkers with things" for understanding        
Prefers on-site visits for understanding
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• "We Didn't Start The Fire" by Billy Joel
  Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
  South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio 
  Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker,
  television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn
  Monroe Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
  Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in
  the Rye" Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a
  new queen  Marciano, Liberace, Santayana
  goodbyeCHORUSWe didn't start the fireIt was
  always burningSince the world's been turningWe
  didn't start the fireNo we didn't light itBut
  we tried to fight itJosef Stalin, Malenkov,
  Nasser and Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella,
  Communist BlocRoy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini,
  dacron Dien Bien Phu Falls, "Rock Around the
  Clock"  Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a
  winning team Davy Crockett, "Peter Pan", Elvis
  Presley, Disneyland Bardot, Budapest, Alabama,
  Khrushchev Princess Grace, "Peyton Place",
  trouble in the Suez  CHORUS

• Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
  Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
  Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
  Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide
  Buddy Holly, "Ben-Hur", space monkey, Mafia
  hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no goU2,
  Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy Chubby Checker,
  "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo 
  CHORUSHemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a
  Strange Land"  Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs
  Invasion  "Lawrence of Arabia", British
  BeatlemaniaOle Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats
  Patterson Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British
  politician sex  JFK, blown away, what else do I
  have to sayCHORUSBirth control, Ho Chi Minh,
  Richard Nixon, back againMoonshot, Woodstock,
  Watergate, punk rock  Begin, Reagan, Palestine,
  terror on the airline Ayatollolah's in Iran,
  Russians in Afghanistan   "Wheel of Fortune" ,
  Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide  Foreign debts,
  homeless vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz 
  Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial
  law Rock and Roller Cola Wars, I can't take it
  anymoreCHORUSWe didn't start the fireBut
  when we are goneWill it still burn on, and on,
  and on, and on...

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Study Skills Using Mnemonics A Quick Memory
Test. Try Again
presentation notes
Did you remember all 15 words? Now read through
the following story. Try to recount it to a
friend or family member, or aloud to yourself (if
no one else is around). I woke up to find
myself in a caravan. I looked out of the window
to see that I am travelling at 100mph. The
invisible man was driving the car in front towing
the caravan. Suddenly the caravan stops. I step
outside to find that I am in the middle of the
ocean. Mr Bump swam up to me and said all this
water around us is due to the one simple fact
that I have accidentally tipped over my washing
machine. Night fell. I reached up high to grab
hold of a shooting star which whisks me off to
Liverpool. I hit the radio city tower which
turned green with anger and threw me to the
ground. I landed in a huge soft pile of
marshmallows. A news reporter witnessing this
event and jumped into her helicopter which turned
into a giant frog. Read through the list of
words one more time before trying to recall them
once again. This time have a go at
remembering all 15 in the correct order.