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How To Create An Effective Revision Timetable

Here are a few tips to help your students create their study or revision timetable.

1. Adopt short slots

Just like our muscles, our brain gets tired of doing the same thing for too long. There is no point in spending hours studying the same topic, because we simply stop learning after a while. Your students are much better off allocating short (max. 1 hour) slots to each subject or topic and then switching to a new one.

2. Switch between topics

For example, students can study 1 hour of Biology, then 1 hour of English, then 1 hour of RS. A couple of days later, they can repeat the same schedule.

3. Include breaks

Once again, our brain is quite similar to muscles. At the gym, we usually do one series, rest for a few seconds, and then to the second one. During your revision, pupils should give themselves a couple of minutes to rest in between studying for different topics. That will give them a boost of energy for the next one.

4. Mix it up

The most effective way to revise is to practise answering questions. If students are revising more than one topic within the same subject, they can try mixing the questions. For example, if they are revising trigonometry, they should avoid answering all questions about calculating an angle and then all about calculating a length. It is better if they do them in a random order. That way, they will be learning how to find out the answer from the question, instead of already knowing which formulae to use.

5. Go to class prepared

Lastly, a good tip is to revise a topic before they have classes with that teacher. That way, they will have the chance to ask questions and make sure they understand everything before moving on.

Introduction To The Neuroscience Of Learning

How Do We Learn? It's All About Connections

The brain is the most complex organ in our body. And it can do incredible things. Ultimately, the brain is responsible for our thinking, learning and memory. If we want to understand the most effective ways to teach and learn, we need to begin by understanding the neuroscience of learning.
“The brain controls your ability to think, talk, feel, see, hear, remember things, walk and much more. It even controls your breathing.”
How learning happens in the bran is not entirely understood. However, neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists have a very good idea about how the main processes work. The main point is that our brains literally change when we learn something new. That is, our brain cells are physically and chemically changed. When we recall something we learned before, those changes are reactivated in the brain.
But our brain cells don’t act alone; they are connected to other brain cells by neuronal circuits. And this is why connections and associations are important to increase our understanding of topics. If our knowledge is isolated, we may be able to recall it, but won’t be able to use it to solve a problem. On the other hand, if we try to link new information to things we already know, remembering one of them will activate the other ones and will improve our ability to answer a complex question.