The Guy in the Glass by Dale Wimbrow, (c) 1934

The Guy in the Glass
by Dale Wimbrow, (c) 1934
When you get what you want in your struggle for pelf,
And the world makes you King for a day,
Then go to the mirror and look at yourself,
And see what that guy has to say.
For it isn't your Father, or Mother, or Wife,
Who judgement upon you must pass.
The feller whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the guy staring back from the glass.
EXPERIMENT
IMAGination
Your mind follows what you think
about.
GOALS
PREPARATION
EXECUTION
Be careful what you set
What are you in control of?
Can’t say you are going to get an A*
How positive is your state of
mind right now?
State of mind
What effects it?
Confident vs Toxic Language
WONT
TRY
WILL
What words bring you down?
Change to more confident ones
The language in our head
changes our motivation
“Self-Handicapping”
“A cognitive
strategy by
which people
avoid effort in
the hopes of
keeping
potential failure
from hurting
self-esteem.”
Memories are a set of TRIGGERS
Remember the following 10 items in the correct order so that
if I ask you what was word three, you would remember it.
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Watch
Missile
Exhaust
Sweet
Tomato
Fingernail
Scarf
Disease
Elephant
Pillar
Three pillars of memory
Three pillars of memory
Make
Connections
Three pillars of memory
Make
Connections
Create
Narrative
Three pillars of memory
Make
Connections
Create
Narrative
Actively
Recall
1) Make connections
2) Create narrative
Bomb
Balloon
Battery
Beryl
Boar
2) Create narrative
Bomb
Coal
Balloon
Knight
Battery
Ox
Beryl
Florist
Boar
Neon
2) Create narrative
Bomb
= Hydrogen
Coal
Balloon = Helium
Knight
Battery = Lithium
Ox
Beryl
= Beryllium
Florist
Boar
= Boron
Neon
2) Create narrative
Bomb
= Hydrogen
Coal
= Carbon
Balloon = Helium
Knight
= Nitrogen
Battery = Lithium
Ox
= Oxygen
Beryl
= Beryllium
Florist
= Fluorine
Boar
= Boron
Neon
= Neon
The Roman Room/Memory Palace
• Journey around a room in your house or
journey you know well and attach ideas/facts
to it.
Diagrammatical
Diagrammatical
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Get a blank piece of paper. You can do this on your computer or tablet device as
well if that is more comfortable for you. Put your paper or screen display in
landscape placement.
Put the central topic in the centre of the sheet and then develop the main
branches of subtopics that you will connect back to the centre portion of the mind
map.
Continue adding subtopics and further branching as you see fit and according to
your topic. Some topics may need more branches than others, depending on the
complexity of the topic.
Use colours, symbols, and drawings to illustrate the mind map with different
colours representing the various levels of topic detail so that you can easily
designate the difference between a main topic, subtopic, and sub-subtopic.
Minimise the use of words on the mind map to just a single word or find a picture
that represents the idea. This technique works because it is visual rather than
relying on the linear use of many words and sentences that the brain has a harder
time processing.
Employ different sizes of text, hues, and alignment among the main and subbranches to strengthen the visual cues that the mind map is intended to provide
the brain to keep it more engaged in the learning, analysing, and memorising
process.
Condense and Arrange
Remember a passage of work
5 things to each other plus go
through as a group
What is a flash card
how do they work?
Visual Trigger
The First World War
28th June 1914: Assassination of
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of
Austria, heir to the AustroHungarian throne, who was
killed in Sarajevo along with his
wife
1st August 1914:
Germany declares
war on Russia
3) Actively recall
Memories fade
3) Actively recall
A reminder
Make
Connections
Create
Narrative
Actively
Recall
The Main Thing?
Two simple ideas…..
Behaviour
Lesson starts
Research Informed Revision
10 strategies to help you do revision that works
Strategy 1
When you answer a question, develop your
answer by thinking about ‘why?’ For example:
• In science, increasing the temperature can increase the rate of a chemical
reaction….why?
• In geography, the leisure industry in British seaside towns like Porthcawl
in South Wales has deteriorated in the last 4 decades….why?
• In history, the 1929 American stock exchange collapsed. This supported
Hitler’s rise to power….why?
Research Informed Revision
10 strategies to help you do revision that works
Strategy 2
Keep testing yourself in the way that you will be
tested – so do lots and lots of past exam papers
and/or get someone to ask you questions.
This is far more effective than just reading
through/highlighting your notes.
Research Informed Revision
10 strategies to help you do revision that works
Strategy 3
Read a section of your exercise book (or revision
guide) and write a summary of the key points
(without looking back).
Then go back and check for accuracy.
Research Informed Revision
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Strategy 4
Use acronyms to help remember ‘lists’ of
things e.g. colours in the spectrum
ROYGBIV (red, orange, yellow, green, blue,
indigo, violet)
Research Informed Revision
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Strategy 5
Plan your revision schedule over the Easter
holidays, so that you keep coming back to topics
– don’t just do them once and think that’s OK!
Research Informed Revision
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Strategy 6
Interleave your revision topics. So instead
of revising like this::
Revise your topics like this instead:
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Strategy 7
Read a section of your exercise book (or revision
guide) and then put the information into a
different format e.g. list, table, mindmap etc.
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Strategy 8
Once you have revised a topic, explain it to
another person and ask them to ask you
sensible questions about it e.g. ‘Why is
that then?’
Research Informed Revision
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Strategy 9
Revise a topic until you think you know it…but
then keep going with it (as you probably don’t
know it as well as you think!)
Research Informed Revision
10 strategies to help you do revision that works
Strategy 10
Use flaschards to help you remember key
ideas. This app is great:
A flashcard has a question on
one side and the answer on
the other side – so it’s a
great way of testing your key
knowledge.