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Techniques to Enhance Learning
Bonnie M. BucklesWilkes University
EDIM 510
MnemonicsOne 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
Rhyming“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 anassessment.
Chunking 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.
Concept Mapping
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.
Peer Teaching
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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