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During Learning

Delve into this toolkit to master new knowledge and skills. With your mind prepared, it’s time to put strategies, tips, and techniques into action and elevate your learning.

Commit to trying a new approach, for a big pay off!

  • Cognitive Load – It’s all about brain space and capacity. Feel overloaded?
  • Dual Coding – A picture is worth a thousand words. Honestly!
  • Elaboration – The power of explaining to others to really help things ‘stick’.
  • Flash Cards – A firm favourite revision technique but often misused!
  • Knowledge Organisers – Mind maps, topic summaries. What to do with them.
  • Memory Hack 1: Loci – Need to remember information in an order? This rocks.
  • Memory Hack 2: Peg – Beloved by memory masters everywhere. Incredibly powerful.
  • Teacher Feedback – Written feedback takes time and effort, so why do we ignore it?