Lets see if we can find the best of the best revision techniques!!!
Here's one for you to start with:
(From SLN GeoRevision)
Red Pen Black Pen
The idea is that
the two colours work on the two halves of the brain. The black pen signifies
the information that you already hold in your conscious memory. The red pen
signifies those things in your unconscious memory that you wish to transfer
into your conscious memory. The red pen strongly signifies danger and is held
by your unconscious memory without realising it.
The revision
technique has several stages :
Stage 1 – Produce
a concept map to cover a topic you wish to revise e.g. farming (attached).
Could be set as a homework, obviously how you set out your concept map is
personal to you and students will learn faster by having completed this first
step themselves.
Stage 2 – Produce
a blank skeleton of your concept map (attached)
Stage 3 – In the
lesson ask the students to revise from their concept map for 10 minutes – no
longer !
Stage 4 – Turnover
the concept map with the answers on it. With your black pen write down
everything that you can remember.
Stage 5 – When you
cannot remember anymore turn over the answer sheet and then fill in the blanks
in red. This is the end of the first evolution.
Stage 6 – Spend 10
minutes revising from the sheet you have been working on.
Repeat from stage
4 !
During the
exercise the amount of black ink should increase and the red pen decrease as
you transfer more information into your conscious memory.
