Acronyms and mnemonics can be very helpful for learning. In addition to helping with memory and recall, it also helps make learning new material more fun.
Guided notes have always been the center piece of my lectures in class, however, I now know that guided notes alone will not bring them as far as they can with the lecture in question. Using mnemonics is something I have been trying to incorporate more into the classroom, as well as graphic organizers, and the results are a stark difference in learned materials. I need to incorporate these techniques more if I want to improve student improvement!
Acrostic is a new word for me! I have been calling it a mnemonic.
I learned that methods such as mnemonics and scaffolding are very helpful.
Mnemonics can be helpful, but sometimes they are a barrier to students deeper learning. For example I have had issues making students see past PEMDAS in algebra.
Good notes as fill in the blank, mnemonics, key words, are all great tools for helping students to retain and retrieve important information in the class.
By using scaffolding my students will have a little reinforcement which will allow them to start remembering with out the use of the scaffold. Using mnemonics will be a fun and helpful lesson assistant for my students as well helping them retain information.
The use of scaffolding and guided notes stood out as strong techniques to assist with student learning and retention of new information.
I use process charts or flow charts.
Scaffolding is a great tactic for the students to go to the key point in an efficient way
Scaffolding and mnemonics seem to be two of the preferred ways for learners and even instructors to retain what they have learned. Guided notes must always be a part of your teaching.
Try and highlight in your lectures what you want your students to remember
This section was especially insightful with the discussion of Mnemonics - it is a tool that I use myself and will use to help students.
Scaffolding the daily class using guided nots during Powerpoints becomes active learning grafic organizers and Acronyms can assist with attaching visuals to key elements of course content which will assist students in reating material. All of this breaks down material in a way that also helps the student recode information on a personal level.
This module revealed the importance of strategic study skills to each students prgress and success.
Scaffolding; an amazing tactic I now know has a name for it! Students aren't receiving an education on their own. They need some assistance and guidance to stay on the right path to success (graduating). Intances where scaffolding and mnemonics are used can be highly beneficial to the students passing a course AND retaining the information for future use.
Incorporating guided notes, Mnemonics and gamification into lectures has greatly improved student retention of the material as well as providing positive feedback and improved development of course content and lab tasking. Thank you for this amazingly effective learning tool for my student s and fellow instructors!
Mnemonics have been effective not only for myself but for the students as well. The students seem to enjoy making up their own to remember what was taught in class.
The recoding strategies were the most enlightening and engaging section for me, specifically guided notes. I had tried a variation of guided notes in the past, but I don't think they were particularly useful (to be fair, it was my first semester teaching and I was building curriculum on the fly). With more experience and the guided notes strategies, I could implement them in a much more meaningful way. I feel it'd be particularly helpful since my courses are so content heavy!
I believe it would be important to present all these methods to students so that they can compare them to their own learning styles and choose the most effective ones that fit those styles. Mnemonics, loci, acronyms may all work but which is the most effective for the individual learner, that is the important thing to discover.
