10 Strategies to Enhance Students' Memory

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Florida 33760 Phone: Fax: Website: www.fndfl.org From: Newsbrief on Teaching and Learning Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 10:52 AMTo: fnd@...Subject: 10 Strategies to Enhance Students' Memory You are receiving this email from The Center for Development and Learning because you attended one of our professional development institutes, purchased a product from us or subscribed on our website. To ensure that you continue to receive emails from us, add learn@... to your address book today. If you haven't done so already, click to confirm your interest in receiving email campaigns from us. To no longer receive our emails, click to unsubscribe. 10 Strategies to Enhance Students' Memory May 2, 2006 The memory demands for school-age children are much greater than they are for adults. As adults, we have already acquired much of the knowledge and skills we need to function day to day. Although the knowledge base for some fields such as technology changes rapidly, the new information is generally highly specific and builds on existing knowledge. On the other hand, school children are constantly bombarded with new knowledge in multiple topic areas in which they may or may not be interested. Additionally, they are expected to both learn and demonstrate the mastery of this knowledge on a weekly basis. Thus, an effective and efficient memory is critical for school success. The following ten general strategies are offered to help students develop a more efficient and effective memory.

1. Give Directions in Multiple Formats: Students benefit from being given directions in both visual and verbal formats. In addition, their understanding and memorizing of instructions could be checked by encouraging them to repeat the directions given and explain the meaning of these directions. Examples of what needs to be done are also often helpful for enhancing memory of directions. 2. Teach Students to Over-learn Material: Students should be taught the necessity of "over- learning" new information. Often they practice only until they are able to perform one error-free repetition of the material. However, several error- free repetitions are needed to solidify the information.3. Teach Students to Use Visual Images and Other Memory Strategies: Another memory strategy that makes use of a cue is one called word substitution. The substitute word system can be used for information that is hard to visualize, for example, for the

word occipital. This word can be converted into a word or words that sound familiar that can be visualized. The word occipital can be converted to exhibit hall because it sounds like exhibit hall. The student can then make a visual image of walking into an art museum and seeing a big painting of a brain with big bulging eyes (occipital is the region of the brain that controls vision). With this system, the vocabulary word the student is trying to remember actually becomes the cue for the visual image that then cues the definition of the word. 4. Give Teacher-Prepared Handouts Prior to Class Lectures: Class lectures and series of oral directions should be reinforced by teacher-prepared handouts. The handouts for class lectures could consist of a brief outline or a partially completed graphic organizer that the student would complete during the lecture. Having this information both enables students to identify the salient information that is

given during the lectures and to correctly organize the information in their notes. Both of these activities enhance memory of the information as well. The use of Post-Its to jot information down on is helpful for remembering directions. Read the complete article with all ten strategies and useful examples. Want to

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