 Allow me to introduce a piece of research which explores the teaching of explicit study skills alongside your curriculum plans Here are nine study skills all supported by research number one elaboration Generating and being able to explain Why a student comes up with a particular answer study skill to self Explanation being able to explain new information study skill three Summarization a bite-sized overview of the information For highlighting. I know when I was a young man. I highlighted everything never was taught how to do it properly Highlighting is marking potentially Important information whilst reading study skill five Mnemonics, this is the mental imagery to help us recall and remember to Store information number six dual coding not learning styles. Now. This is what I'm doing here I'm presenting the image in support of the text I may want to present them one at a time in reverse order So text first an image or image first and text it's entirely your choice depends on the context of what you're teaching essentially what I'm doing here is Synchronizing the information to make it easier to process. It's not learning styles Re-reading is the re-study of text material study skill eight retrieval So low-state quizzing high challenge but not stressful and making the quizzes the retrieval practice Desireably challenged desirably difficult instead of using the word test use quiz and watch what happens finally We've got spaced and interleaving practice spaced will know is scheduling content over time Interleaving my favorite analogy think of a fruit salad, so apples, pears, bananas, but not the baked beans mix similar Categories of the same topic when building knowledge over time now your four power tools This is supported by a great book powerful teaching by Pooja Argo on Patrice Bain Retrieval spaced interleaving and feedback perhaps where teachers should spend their most efforts Take this further. This is the research by Don Lossky published in 2013 even in their own evaluation They said they need to explore the research and recommendations a bit further So I do wonder where we are 10 years later and in the links in this video You can see my own blog interpretation of the research and what I believe we should do Here is your kind of league table so to speak. So this is your efficacy on exam outcomes Got the high retrieval spaced interleaving at the top Then you've got your elaboration which has a medium efficacy and then all the others are mixed up But they're all having a low impact on outcomes. So don't ignore them. They do make a difference But your best bets are probably at the top now Here's the key slide that I've been sharing on my travels Inspired by my work with Helen Howe when we published the revision revolution Teach an explicit study skills from day one at school alongside your curriculum plans In September here, we've got the study skills highlighting That might be in year one, year seven, in history, PE, maths, whatever subject Alongside what we're teaching pupils is we're going to introduce this explicit study skill to be taught alongside the curriculum material In October it's repeated and strengthened and then we also introduce a new technique So we've got here highlighting then summarization and then into November highlighting Summarization and then self-explanation and you can start to see how these things connect together I've highlighted the text, I can now summarize what I've highlighted And then I can explain the new information that I've studied through the curriculum plans But from these skills that have been taught by the end of year seven All these skills are explicitly taught and this can be mapped across the entire year or across a subject or across the entire skill If you couple this alongside the revision revolution recommendations And what I now know about the brain and how we learn Then you're definitely going to upgrade your teaching and learning Get in touch if you've got any questions and read more in these two new books Thanks for watching