Health and Wellbeing
Build Your Students’ Study Skills
What students learn in October can still be there in May, with study skills built on how memory works.
- 58 minutes
- 11 modules
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Explain to students how information gets into long-term memory
- Plan revision around spaced practice and regular self-testing
- Run a lotus blossom activity to deepen students' grasp of a topic
- Teach note making by hand, then summarising and reorganising the notes
- Show students memory techniques such as the mind palace
About this course
Plenty of students revise by rereading their notes and giving every subject the same slot on the timetable. It feels productive, and then half of it has gone by the exam.
The fix is to teach them study skills that match how memory works. Spacing and self-testing help knowledge stick over weeks rather than days. The lotus blossom, a grid with a topic in the middle and eight squares around it, shows students what they already know and pushes them to go deeper. There's note making by hand, turning notes into something visual, and the old orators' trick of the mind palace.
None of it needs to wait for exam season. Start early and students get into the habit of finding things out for themselves.
- For early career teachers, supply staff and 3 other roles. Post-16, primary, secondary and special.
11 modules
Open in order
- 2 min
Wrap Up
- 5 min
Study skills and the brain
- 9 min
Essential approaches
- 5 min
Making the best use of our time
- 8 min
Testing and questions
- 7 min
The lotus blossom
- 5 min
The importance of organisation
- 7 min
The art of note making
- 4 min
Making connections
- 3 min
CoRT thinking
- 8 min
The importance of memory