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| Strategies For Enhancing Memory |
 10. Prime the memory prior to teaching and learning activities.
It is helpful to use cues that prepare students for the task to be presented. It is often referred to as priming the memory. For example, when a reading comprehension task is given, students will get an idea of what is expected by discussing the vocabulary and the overall topic beforehand. This will allow the students to focus on the salient information and engage in more effective depth of processing.
11. Use Post-Its.
Students who have short-term memory or working memory challenges may use Post-Its for jotting down information.
12. Activate prior knowledge.
Teachers should activate students’ prior knowledge and make the new information meaningful to them to enlarge the likelihood that students will elaborate on new incoming information. A good way of completing this task is to ask: What do you want to know? What do you know?
13. Give extended time.
When students have difficulty with the speed of retrieving information from memory, they should be given extended time for taking tests so that a true picture of what they know may be gained.
14. Use multisensory methods.
When both young and old learners experience something through multiple senses, they are much more likely to remember it. Try to use a multisensory approach by engaging as many of the senses as possible when teaching (seeing, touching, hearing, smelling, and tasting).
15. Review material before going to sleep.
It is very useful for students to review material right before going to sleep at night. Investigation has shown that information studied this way is better remembered. Any other task that is performed after reviewing and prior to sleeping (such as getting a snack, brushing teeth, listening to music) interferes with consolidation of information in memory.
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