I’ve forgotten. ”

“I can not remember.”

“I put on a test and I think that void.”

“I am not a good test Taker.

These are all things, students say, when they forget or not well on placement tests. All of us, students and non-students also important things. This happens when we’re not the transmission of information in the long-term memory. It is important to know how you can do this to better in school and beyond. Mentalité times: You have to remember what you read what your boss tells you that someone on routes rushes to a traffic light or, if you are a student, what the teacher said.

This article is from a student perspective, because it makes it easier for them. However, these strategies are equally useful for adults, because we all need a little help remember new things.

Have you ever noticed that some things are easy to remember, while others are difficult? For example, you can recall how an engine, or why it rains, but you may recall the lines of problems in a school play or multiplication facts. They are easily knowing that nothing wrong with you, what happens with anyone. The good news is that strategies that can help remind you what you need to remember. The twelve strategies (some of which are regarded as aide-memoire “NI my ik” peripheral) below you will learn how to store important information. We know that they are effective because they were helping students STRONG Learning Centers ® for the year, and not only on homework and tests, but as a value in their daily lives.

STRATEGY 1 Chunking

It is easier to memorize information, if you into small pieces. It is regarded as chunking. They can not detect, but you often chunking, as you’ve noticed, if your friend’s phone number, a combination of record, or your Social Insurance Number. It is easier to memorize the digits of time, if one “chunk” in groups of three, four and five years. Indeed, most people can remember, about three, four or five bits of information at once.

Here are some proposals, how can a “chunking” to recall the information and figures.

• Vocabulary Chunk by their orientation by parts of speech or other attributes.

• Chunk historical periods or events.

• Chunk grouping of words of foreign languages in categories such as household or professions.

• When there is no model on the information you need to study the issues that the group into three, four or five at a time, and it will help a lot.

STRATEGY 2 UNDERSTANDING

Before you begin, try to note something, try to understand them. A good way to do so by creating a link between what you learn and what you have lived. Indeed, the more you can check the new information to what you already know, it is easier to learn. For example, before you try to remember the events of European history, you look for places on a globe (or the world map) and see where they come into contact with each other and also in relation to which you live.

STRATEGY 3 Graphic Organizers

These tools help you see things that you try to learn. Have you help information. There are many types of graphic organizers. You can even design itself.

• the Venn diagram to compare and contrast the

• A website for the main theme and details

• the cause and effect with the design of the event in the middle, find the causes of the left in the boxes and the consequences right boxes. (The effects and causes of the event are available through the lines.)

• organizers cycle consists of forms, in a cyclical pattern with words in all forms of representing things or events in cycles. For example, the water cycle.

To see / print examples of this graph, the organizers, No. 452 Skills Improve your memory, Silbert, Strong learning on our website.

STRATEGY 4 Visualization

For the display, to see an image in the head, without really looking. Visualization can help you, almost everything. Here is an example. Suppose that the topic is the water cycle. Create a mental image of a cloud. Picture It develop. Now, let’s see, and “Feel” of their heavy cold rain. See rain hit the ground, then in the direction of streams and rivers flowing to the sea Now, “see” the hot sun and hit the water evaporates and clouds form…. About this picture? If you can see parts of the water cycle, which is significant boring diagrams and able to memorize. As a general rule, if you have problems to see the equipment, try to purchase maps, charts, graphs and images.

STRATEGY 5 ASSOCIATION

Another strategy is to combine learning, or “connection”, each word or an event with a person, place, thing, emotion or situation. Example: you log on, what you’re trying to teach someone you know or with a film character or scene. When do you learn vocabulary, you just write new words, write definitions on their side, and then write a person, thing, the event, film or association to remember that you will help the significance of each word. For example: “My aunt Alice great gifts altruistic.” (Altruistisch say generous.)

STRATEGY 6 Reimend

We all reimend ABC song to learn the alphabet. And the rhyme “I E, unless, in C, or if it looks like a neighbor or as a weigh.” It is also an excellent strategy, even if learning times tables. For example, 7 and 7 fell to seize the line number 49, 8 and 4 and gave him some stew to 32 (Rhymes should not be reasonable!)

7 TALKING STRATEGY

It is a simple strategy and fun to use, especially if one wants to talk! Talking about the information you need to learn. Tell grandfather, mother, friend or your dog, what you learn! Do you want to learn history? So talk about history – to discuss, debate, discuss. Think of a person may have lived for an important historic event and claim to that person. Now the important events: participated, as whats up, where it happened, what happened and why? If you are learning a language, then they talk about the table. It plays no role, if others know what you say you do, so you can learn.

STRATEGY 8 MÄRCHENWANDERUNG

Storytelling is a way to help remember information in any way. Write a story focusing on the essential points that learning and transmitting them in a logical order. It may even be a song or rhyme, tells the story. And there is a bonus: Each event in the history of solving your memories of the next event, so you can remember more.

STRATEGY 9 WRITING AWARDS

Do you remember learning the silly phrase “Every good boy done well” of the class of music? We used to recall the notes. You can also use the expression “My very good mother served us nine pizzas” to recall the planets. (Oops, change the game, because Pluto is no longer as a planet). This strategy may also help us, these bulky For spelling words. Simply make a game with words beginning with the letter. So, to learn “Aardvark”, you can make a nonsense sentence: Aardvarks always very angry chahuteur Up Kids.

STRATEGY 10 ACRONYMS

An acronym is a word from the first letter from a list of words. And it works. You take the list of words or deeds that you want to remember and order, so that the first letter of each word or the first syllables, a spell checker or a true word-up voice.

How would you like to register the names of the five Great Lakes? Simply, noted “home”. H = Huron, Ontario = O, M = Michigan, Erie and E = S = Superior. While this strategy does not help these data are at least help you remember. It is easy and fun, and you will not have forgotten the information forever. You may be interested to know that our company name is an acronym. STRONG means self-respect, confidence, responsibility, options, needs, objectives.

STRATEGY 11 samples

If you want to recall information, you have to practice, or it pales. So, as players must help prepare, to remember their lines, students must prepare to recall what they learn. Here are some useful hints on “prepare” What is the information you need to learn, homework or tests:

• Rehearse practice for short periods of time (perhaps 30 to 60 minutes) and then a short break of ten minutes to call a friend, a snack or take a few tires.

• Use a multi-whenever you prepare: they say, write, read, paint, sing: – do the right thing.

• Just before going to bed, make sure you everything you need to know for the next day or the next test. It is surprising that the more you will have noticed if you prepare before nightfall.

• review in the morning, while brushing teeth, breakfast or eat sitting in the bus.

STRATEGY 12 Playing Games

Reading is a good way to remember. See how you play the game of learning materials and practise again and again. The games can help you recall the facts, formulas, definitions, events or other information that you are trying to learn. Here is an example.

Memory play alone or with other devices with maps that you are normal sheets that you both. Creation of pairs in writing the same number on two cards, 1 and 1, 2 and 2, etc. Be the minuscule number so that they do not play with. For each pair, you write a question on a map and the response of the other card. Example: “2×7 =” on a map and “14″ is available on the couple, or “Where are the pilgrims? On a map and Plymouth, Massachusetts is on the couple. So shuffle all memory cards and play with him or with a friend. If you only see how you can quickly all couples. You can check on you sure that small numbers are the same. Have Fun!

For Tough Ones: For couples who are really difficult to recall, you have a string “clothes line” between two points on a wall. Join the couple next to the other type of clothing Spring Pins. For example, if you receive circle formulas below, each time you walk in your room, you will see “C =” and “2 * pi * r” and “A =” and “pi r squared * “Beside the other. Fairly quickly, you remember information.

Another example of the many games are sold commercially to make learning easier to read and fun. A good example by using one of twenty STRONG Phonics Learning Games, children in grades 1-6 can learn phonics rules during the reading popular card games: Go Fish, war, memory or Black Peter.

We hope you find that some of these techniques and strategies make it easier for you and your children to remember important things. We also hope that these strategies will help the school days and nights at home much better.