Over recent months I have been working with Crew Young in Y11 every Tuesday morning to explore revision techniques that I have successfully employed in my teaching over the years.
We’ve learned about techniques such as flash cards and the theory behind them, effective revision learning environments, the use of past exam papers and mark schemes, how to boost levels of motivation, the Cornell note taking method and digital revision applications like Seneca and Quizlet.
I often use the analogy of the forgetting curve to explain to students that we often forget knowledge over time, and without constant repetition and the revisiting of knowledge, it fades away over time. The following videos like the one below are great for helping students to understand the rationale behind such techniques. They help to reinforce the fact that there are no short cuts for beating the forgetting curve, and that with hard work and attention to the strategies that we have covered so far, we can indeed beat it.
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Last week’s session on using Quizlet to recap knowledge was awesome.
Next step – extend these strategies to all Y11 students in XP and XP East in order to beat the forgetting curve together!
