SUPPORTING and DEVELOPING REVISION

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SUPPORTING and DEVELOPING REVISION

• Jane Dupree

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How do you eat an elephant?
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A little at a time.
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Support with planning

• Know your child and his or her learning styles.
• Provide a safe revision environment
• Support your child with suitable equipment and
  resources
• Dont be afraid of using tough love

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Know your child and his learning styles

• Is she a perfect Paula or a rush around
  Richard?
• I find it difficult to say no to people
• I always get interrupted when I study
• Im busy with lots of interests
• I dont believe in doing things the easy way
• I dont like asking for help
• I do things as well as I can and that has to do
• Shabby work gets on my nerves
• Ive always got too much to do
• I like everyone to be happy
• I spend ages trying to get my work just right
• I can get things done on my own
• I wish there were more hours in a day

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Learning styles-does their style match yours?

• Are you (they) an inch worm
• or a grasshopper?

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What does it mean?

• Inchworms like to learn and work things out step
  by step, especially in maths lessons
• Inchworms think logically?
• Inchworms like a tidy organised place to do their
  homework
• Inchworms like to study with bright light.
• Inchworms plan ahead
• Inchworms are punctual
• Inchworms are happy to have a lesson taught in
  steps without knowing the end

• Grasshoppers often know the answer in maths but
  cannot explain how they got there. They do not
  like to show their working out
• Grasshoppers can work in a random order
• Grasshoppers are less punctual
• Grasshoppers like to do their homework with
  music/noise and people around
• Grasshoppers are impulsive
• Grasshoppers remember peoples faces well whereas
  inchworms remember their names
• Grasshoppers want to know the end point of the
  lesson before they start

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Support your child to use their time effectively
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Provide a safe revision environment

• In school tests are a chance to practise new
  revision methods before the serious exams, so
  encourage them to take risks
• Effort is everything, praise when you KNOW they
  have prepared and tried their best
• Reward wisely to keep self esteem intact Use
  metacognition when discussing results with your
  son or daughter.
• Be strict with MSN use during revision time

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Support your child with suitable equipment and
resources linked to their learning styles

• Coloured post it notes
• Highlighter pens
• Provide ICT resources such as Kidspiration, Mind
  Genius
• Provide folders, reinforced pockets, A3 paper A4
  paper, and be prepared to support organisational
  skills
• Dictaphones
• Tapes
• Internet access for revision sites (
  BBCbitesize)google is a good start, then book
  mark their favourites)

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http//www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revision/
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Dont be afraid of using tough love
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Planning a revision timetable

• Understand about the learn and time review scale
  and build this in to the timetable.

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Planning a revision timetable

• Concentration spans differ, but a rule of thumb
  is 1 minute of concentration for every year of
  their age

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Planning a revision timetable
Is your child really revising or are they
learning the information for the first time?
Understand the importance of revising for small
tests in school, keeping notes and mind maps made
earlier. Be metacognitive with ALL homework
throughout the year.
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Planning a revision timetable

• Break topics into small manageable chunks,
  remember the elephant- use topic lists provided
  by all subject staff to do this
• On the revision time table put..
• The subject to revise
• the topic within the subject to revise
• how you are going to revise the topic using
  ACTIVE revision methods

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For example

• Maths ( 20 minutes)
• Algebra-simultaneous equations.
• bbc bitesize test to see what I know..
• then maths book for examples where I am stuck
  from feed back on the BBC bitesize test.
• then question from maths text book..
• Top up tomorrow with question from past paper

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Revision techniques

• How did you revise when you were at school?
• Look at the sheet of revision techniques,
  remember learning styles matter as does the
  subject being revised

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Memory techniques

• FOR INFORMATION THAT MUST BE REMEMBERED IN A
  SEQUENCE
• The number peg system

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The number peg system

• 1 bun
• 2 shoe
• 3 tree
• 4 door
• 5 hive
• 6 sticks

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The number peg system

• 7 heaven
• 8 gate
• 9 wine, sign, vine
• 10 hen

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• Factors affecting development in Southern Italy

Key Stage 3 Geography
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• bun transport
• 2 shoe weather
• 3 tree erosion
• 4 door earthquakes
• 5 hive volcanoes
• 6 sticks poverty

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• 7 heaven push
• 8 gate pull
• 9 wine
• 10 hen

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Using stories to remember sequences

• Radio waves
• Micro waves
• Infra red waves
• Visible light
• Ultra violet light
• X rays
• Gamma rays

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Keep meta cognitive at all times

• Does this method suit me?
• Can I try it in a safe learning environment?
• What type of study does this method work best
  with?
• Where can I transfer the revision method that
  worked well to other areas of the curriculum?

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and remember Henny Penny

• The sky will not fall in!

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Some useful addresses and sites
Software www.dyslexic.com for kidspiration,
inspiration - mind mapping software.
Kidspiration for younger students, inspiration
for older students Book Help students improve
their study skills Jane Dupree. Available on
Amazon books Software Nessy Brain booster, study
skill CD for older students www.nessy.co.uk Book
Mind Maps for kids, The shortcut to success at
school Tony Buzan www.thorsonselement.com
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1. Make summary notes using A4 paper or file cards,
   colour code the notes
2. Make patterned notes or mind maps, stick the mind
   maps all over the bedroom, loo walls etc for
   quick reviews.
3. Change headings into questions and write summary
   notes that answer those questions.
4. Compare your summary notes to friends notes and
   shop-bought revision notes.
5. Read your summary notes aloud, put them onto
   tapes and listen to them in the car for quick
   reviews
6. Get others to read your summary notes aloud to
   you.
7. Rewrite your summary notes using different words
   and layout.
8. Practice labelling diagrams without looking at
   your notes make sure you can spell the key
   words.
9. Test yourself using read, cover up, write and
   check.
10. Test yourself by visualising, draw the picture or
    movie in your mind. This method works for Olympic
    athletes so it will work for you.
11. Get others to test you, answer verbally or write
    it down.
12. Be active when testing yourself, move around the
    room.
13. Do past exam papers, first using your notes.
14. Do past exam papers without using your notes.
15. Do past exam papers under timed conditions.
16. Do lots of plans of English essays from past
    papers ask your teacher to check your plan is
    suitable for the essay title.
17. Work through examples from textbooks, cover up as
    you go along and continue to self check.
18. Think up your own exam questions. This is really
    hard but shows you know the topic.
19. Be metacognitive at all times. (Know the number
    of facts to recall, the number of key words etc.)