It is an act repeated the world over: children trundle home with their spelling lists to learn and parents dutifully help them prepare for the dreaded spelling test at the end of …
The Revision ‘Collection’
Each year we are all faced with the nerve-shredding, tolerance-stretching spell that is revision. It never seems to get any easier. Each group of students proves a unique, gnarly challenge as we …
Eat, Sleep, Revise, Repeat
I wrote this article for Teach Secondary (You can sign up to subscribe HERE) on the ‘science of revision’ over a year ago, but the advice still stands up well: We can …
Remembering Quotations – 10 Strategies
I don’t think there are many English teachers who haven’t asked the following question in the last year: ‘how do I help my class better remember quotations?’ It is an age-old question, …
Memory for Learning: 10 Top Tips
We can all imagine our own personal hell of terminal exams, stacked on top of one another, with acres of knowledge to remember. It is the stuff of sleepless nights, for teachers and …
The Trick of Teaching
We know a great deal about the human memory, but there is still so much more to know. Much of what we learn is counterintuitive and unveils the idiosyncratic of our mind and memory. …
Effective Revision Strategies
There is a lot of cognitive science research that proves what revision strategies work best for embedding information into the long term memory – which is our goal in relation to exam …