Study Skills Workshop

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Study Skills Workshop

• Improve your memory and revision skills

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Learning objective

• To appreciate how you can exercise your brain to
  make it work better when learning

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Key questions

• What do you think of revision or the way you
  learn?
• How often do you revise? Where? When? How?
• What strategies do you already use when revising?

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Activity 1

• Wake your brain up!
• Brain Gym
• Alphabet edit

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Brain Gym

• Nose/Ear Change
• Water wheels (in reverse)
• Double Doodle Letters in the Air
• Piano Fingers

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L LEFT R RIGHT B BOTH
A B C D E F G H I L R B L R B L R B J K L M N O P
R S L R B L R B L R B T U V W X Y Z L R B L R B
L
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Activity 2

• Building a living brain

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How does MY Brain Work?
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How do I make studying more effective?
There are lots of different ways to make your
studying easier and more effective
But first you need to ask the question
What is in it for me?
Be clear about what you are aiming to do in your
study session.
Today I am going to review Trigonometry or
History etc.
Set your own objectives.
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Decide how you are going to study
Mind map
Spyder Diagram
Mnemonics
Flow Diagrams
Flash Cards
Songs/Raps
List - Bullet points
Dont study for any more than twenty minutes at
a time. Every twenty minutes take a five to ten
minute break.
In that five, ten minute break do something
physical
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Make full use of your ENVIRONMENT, put positive
comments up in your room to encourage you.
Lots of air, a warm room can make you drowsy.
You need a light room
Snacks to keep you going
But make sure they are healthy, and drink lots
of water
Play music that clams you down usually music
that has 60 beats per minute
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How does my brain work?
Everyones brain works the same way, but has
different strenghths.
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The brain is much more complex than this but we
can crudley split it into 5 sections.
Left Hemisphere
Right Hemisphere
This is the brain stem
Mid brain
And in the middle the Corpus Callosum
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The brain stem controls the bodies function such
as breathing, and instinct.
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The mid brain controls our memory and emotions.
Its important to keep calm when studying because
if you are irate, or un-nerved your midbrain
shuts down and no learning can take place.
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The Left Hemisphere is responsible for language,
logic, and detail.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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The Right Hemisphere is responsible for music,
creativity and visual/spatial skills.
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The Corpus Callosum is the key to it all.
The Corpus Callosum is a bundle of fibres around
200 million which connect the left and right
hemispheres.
It send electrical signals to and fro, making the
brain work as one.
The goal of the next part is to show you how to
create new links so that messages pass quicker
and effectively make you smarter because your
brain works quicker.
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Activity 3

•  Mnemonics

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Mnemonics

• BECAUSE
• BIG ELEPHANTS CAN ALWAYS UNDERSTAND SMALL
  ELEPHANTS

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Plenary - review reflection

• Tell me one thing that you have learnt that you
  will use again?

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Extension activities

• 1-10 in Japanese
• Can you count?