Memory Skills Made Easy

As a teacher and parent I get confused when I hear that memorizing is a thing of the past. I know when I’m in the classroom that kids can’t remember their Spanish verbs or conjugations easily. I also know as a parent that my son doesn’t remember history facts very easily.

So what am I supposed to do? Tell each to suck it up and get the information in there without a conscious effort?

I’m all in favor of learning in context and understanding information as it applies to real life. I don’t like the idea of memorizing as a rote activity. There needs to be an anchor involved somewhere. Most times this anchor comes from the context and the other elements of the lesson. Read the rest of this entry »

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Schools treat memory skills like they do study skills. It’s every student for themselves.

Now, that’s not to say teachers avoid the topic altogether. There are many teachers that try to incorporate memory skills into particular units of study. For example, everyone learned the order of operations using some form of mnemonic. I learned “Please excuse my Dear Aunt Sally.” (Parenthesis, Exponents, multiplication, Division, Addition and Subtraction).

Yet, very few teachers present the technique as a memory skill. On the contrary, students simply remember it as a way to recall that math fact. Just as they learned other techniques to remember the planets, or the presidents. Read the rest of this entry »

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Thanks, Jim

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