Effective Revision Techniques Mrs Poole DLA RE
Revision skills • Much more than simply reading, writing and highlighting!
Our focus for effective revision • To improve the quality of revision.
Y11 Pupil voice: • Pupil voice completed with 2/3 of the year group so far. • Just under half (46%) said they are revising regularly. However about a quarter of these were unsure how effective their revision actually was. • Of the other 54% questioned 25% have yet to start regular revision and feel unsure of what are effective revision strategies
This means that: • Copying notes • Reading notes • Highlighting • Making flashcards • Cramming • Are not the most effective revision techniques • UNLESS THEY DO SOMETHING ELSE WITH THESE MATERIALS WHEN THEY ARE DONE!
6 strategies to effective learning: • Elaboration • Concrete examples • Retrieval practice • Spaced practice • Interleaving • Dual Coding • There is information about these 6 strategies in your pack. As well as example revision materials.
Retrieval practice and Spaced practice • Read one area of their knowledge organiser/kip sheet/revision guide/flash cards etc • Cover it up • Write it out from memory • Uncover and check against it. Fill in missing information in another colour. Make a quiz to use from this information. • As part of spaced practice do the same again one day/one week/one month later. Check the sheets against each other what are they failing to remember? Make key cards of this information.
Catholic beliefs on resurrection Humanist and atheist beliefs on the Afterlife Catholic Christians believe that the soul Humanists believe that we only live and body will be re-united at the once, that this life is "not a dress ‘Resurrection’ rehearsal". The idea of a non-material The Bible tells us that when Jesus returns existence after we die doesn't make to earth, he will physically raise all those sense to many humanists. What could who have died, giving them back the bodies life be like without everything that they lost at death. makes it interesting and worthwhile; These bodies will not die and, for the our bodies (which communicate with righteous, they will be transformed into a others and move us around), our senses glorified state, freed from suffering and (through which we experience life), pain, and enabled to do many of the our brains (which contain all our amazing things Jesus could do with his knowledge and memories)? We will no glorified body . longer exist as people, though the The resurrection of the body is an molecules that make up our body will essential Christian doctrine. St Paul says: still exist as part of the natural world. “If the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised. If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. (1 Cor. 15).
Catholic beliefs on resurrection Humanist and atheist beliefs on the Afterlife
Concrete Examples • Turn something academic and abstract into something concrete! • For example • The Holy Trinity! Hardest thing we study in RE • The belief that there is One God but he is know to us in three distinct ways (The Church calls these aspects or Godheads). How can God be one and three, it doesn’t make sense. • This is an abstract idea, much of what we learn is. Pupils need to be able to find concrete examples to help them understand and remember them.
Concrete examples Help yourself to a Mars Bar. The Holy Trinity is like a Mars Bar. It is definitely one chocolate bar not three but it has three distinct and equally important ingredients. The three ingredients cannot be separated into 3 bars! This is a good concrete example because it is taken from something familiar to the pupils.
Concrete Examples • On your desk are 3 examples of abstract ideas. • Between you on your tables can you come up with concrete ideas to help you understand and remember the original concept?
Elaboration • Start with something simple- The A-Z challenge, a quote, a key point. • Then in another colour elaborate and question what you know. • What is it? • What questions can be asked about it? • What examples can you give (concrete examples!)? • What is the opposite of this? • What links can you make between ideas, topics
A I Q Start small, sum B J R up a topic or an C K S idea with trigger words. Complete D L T as many words as E M U you can that begin F N V with each letter. G O W Then elaborate H P X from there.! Y Z
A I Q B J Revision Complete as many Clothes K School words as you can Driving L T that begin with lessons each letter. Our E Money U topic for tonight is Friends N V teenagers! GCSEs O W Hormones P X Y Z
A I Q Then try to make B J Revision links between the words. Clothes K School Driving L T lessons Then use one or E Money U some of the words Friends N V to elaborate GCSEs O W Hormones Phone X Y Z
Elaboration • For example: • “Is this a dagger I see before me. The handle toward my hand?” • Why does Shakespeare use this imagery here? • What does this reveal about Macbeth at this point? • How can we make connections to what we know of Macbeth?
Put it in your own words: Impact of this: Who would agree/disagree with Starting point: What do Key concepts to consider? this and why? you want to elaborate? Significant because? Keywords/religious terminology linked Areas of other topics it links to: to this:
Dual Coding • This is all about combining words with pictures or symbols • Read class notes/revision guide/flashcards etc • Then find pictures or symbols to represent you have just read.
Catholics believe that death is a transition not the end. They believe we will have a bodily resurrection like Jesus did. This means both our body and soul will live on after death. They believe this because it is in all 4 Gospels and St Paul teaches it.
Catholics believe that death is a transition not the end. They believe we will have a bodily resurrection like Jesus did. This means both our body and soul will live on after death. They believe this because it is in all 4 Gospels and St Paul teaches it.
Catholics believe that death is a transition not the end. They believe we will have a bodily resurrection like Jesus did. This means both our body and soul will live on after death. They believe this because it is in all 4 Gospels and St Paul teaches it.
Use the images to help you write a paragraph about Catholic beliefs about resurrection.
Dual coding • Instead of copying information on to notes and flash cards draw it. Go back to it later, can you remember what the pictures mean? Check against your original information. • Experiment with different kinds of visuals to suit different subject areas. Why not try: • Timelines • Infographics • Cartoon strips • Diagrams • Or graphic organisers • Make them colourful and interesting
Our final Strategy- Interleaving • Switch between ideas during a study session. Don’t study one idea for too long. • Go back over the ideas again in different orders to strengthen understanding. • Make links between different ideas as you switch between them.
How can you support your child? • Give them the time to revise. • Give them a space to revise. • Ensure they have the things they need- flash cards, pens, post it notes etc • Try to cut down time on phones- there are many apps for phones to encourage them to stay off social media for a time and allow time for vital revision (Offtime, moment, forest etc) • Try to ensure that they are getting enough sleep.
Austin’s Butterfly • https://youtu.be/dOSiU42P8Gc
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