Helping Long term memory retention
Fro memory I like to review the key termas from a lecture; first, right after a lecture, second, the next day we review in the begining of class. I found better test results at the end of the week from doing this simple quick review.
Victoria, thank you for sharing your varied techniques which help everyone to learn. If every teacher used your ideas, learning would be easier for all.
Michele Deck
I give workshops on memorization techniques - which I always say is a bit of a misnomer because the goal is not memorization, but rather comprehension. With medical terminology in mind, we discuss learning prefixes, roots, and suffixes, associating terminology with words and concepts that are more familiar, rewriting notes in various forms (outlines, flash cards, flow charts, bubble diagrams), and incorporating senses. We also discuss not only looking up definitions, but researching words; read articles that incorporate the vocabulary, have a discussion with someone, etc. Terminology isn't arbitrary, so ask why something is named as it is. There are a lot of ways to help learn terminology long-term as opposed to memorizing abstract words.
Audrey, it is using all the different ways the brain can learn that helps those with processing challenges to overcome them.
Michele Deck
I have found that students in particular with learning disabilities benefit significantly from a combonation of someone reading the material to them several times, re-writing and speaking the key material several times, and looking at labeled pictures repeatedly. Which this process seems to harbor long term memory retention.
ryan, as simple as review is, it is such a powerful learning success builder.
Michele Deck
