2. One of the most frequently used strategies that teachers incorporate into classroom
activities to help improve student recollection pertaining to specific skills or concepts, is
using Mnemonics. Children can make associations with prior knowledge to stimulate
their ability to learn and remember new information.
Examples:
The order of operations: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
(Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiply, Divide, Add , Subtract)
The order of the planets: My Very Eager Mother Just Service Us Nachos and Pizza
(Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.)
Animal Taxonomy and Classification: Kids Prefer Cheese Over Fried Green Spinach
(Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
The colors of the rainbow: Roy G. Biv (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
3. “Rhyming is one of the most popular and oldest methods in
memorization. This technique makes use of the fact that we have a
natural tendency to remember rhymes and/or rhythms” (Raghunathan
, 2001.) Students relate well to music and poems, and enjoy their
rhymes and rhythms. There are many songs
that I teach throughout
the school year and when it
comes time for a quiz, test,
or standardized
assessment, you can
faintly hear the hum
of these songs or the
tap of a pencil to that beat,
knowing that the child is
recalling the previously
learned information for an
assessment.
4. Chunking is a memory strategy that educators can encourage
in classroom instruction, and implement whenever possible.
The students simply take information and break in down into
smaller and manageable parts for the students to
understand. Some concepts that are taught in many subject
curriculum areas are too detailed and profound, for individuals
to comprehend or completely understand as a whole. But
when you break them down into manageable parts, it helps
our students eventually see the big picture.
5. Concept maps allow students to collectively gather multiple pieces of data, or
information, then organize them in a way for students to link new concepts to old
ones. This can help make the learning personally relevant to the
students. Concept maps allow students to see connections with the
information, and are great for introducing a new concept, summarizing a lesson
just taught, and exploring a new vocabulary word.
6. Peer teaching helps students to focus intently on the
content for understanding, encourages them to review
and rehearse the content for clarification and
understanding, and it requires social interaction with
the learners. Peer teaching methods allow educators
to circulate around the classroom monitoring student
pairs for understanding as well as answering questions
for clarifications. It is easier to understand something
when one learns the material in more than one
way, and comprehends the information well enough to
teach a peer.
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