Course curriculum

  • 2

    Module 1 Your Brain and Learning

    • Module 1: Your Brain & Learning Styles Chapter

    • Module 1: 3.30 - 8.17: 'Memory and Recall: The Short and Long-term memory'

    • Module 1 Quiz: 18.50: Know your Brain Quiz!

    • Module 1: 21.30 - Activity 1: VAK model

    • Module 1: 24.33 - Advice Handout: Learning Styles Advices

    • Module 1: 26.28 - Activity 2: Are you left or right brain dominant?

    • Module 1: 31.23 - Activity 3: Multiple Intelligences

    • Module 1: 37.45 - Activity 4: Preferred Learning Conditions profile

    • Module 1: 40.03 - Activity 5: Study Habits profile

    • Module 1: 46.10 - Activity 6: Your Summary Learning Profile

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    Module 2 Motivation

    • Module 2: Motivation Chapter

    • Module 2: see 21 mins - Activity 1, Set your Goals frame

    • Module 2: see 32 mins - Activity 2: Converting Dreams to Goals (Frames A and B)

    • Module 2: see 34 mins - Activity 3: The 'How' frame (Frame C)

    • Module 2: see 35 mins - Activity 4: Supporting my Goal (Frame D)

    • Module 2: see 31 mins and 37 mins - Activity 5: Target Grades Chart

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    Module 3 Managing my Time, Learning to Plan

    • Module 3: Managing Time, Learning to Plan Chapter

    • Quiz: Abraham Lincoln Quiz (see 4.31mins)

    • Module 3: see 34 mins - Activity 1: Weekly Time Chart

    • Module 3: see 29 mins - Activity 2: How good is your Time Management

    • Module 3: 37 mins - Activity 3: Using your Homework Journal wisely

    • Module 3: 39 mins - Activity 4: Study to-do list

    • Module 3: 42 mins - Activity 5: Master Study plan

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    Module 4 Reading to Learn: Learning to Summarise

    • Module 4: Reading to Learn, Learning to Summarise Chapter (revised)

    • Module 4: see 16.10 - Exemplar: Using 5Ws & 1H (Romans)

    • Module 4: see 18.39 - Video clip: How to summarise using 5Ws & 1H (The Romans)

    • Module 4, see 18.40 - Activity 1: KWL learning strategy

    • Module 4: see 28.57 - Activity 2: PQRR chapter reading strategy

    • Module 4: see 32.50 - Speed Reading, how does it work?

    • Module 4, see 40.38 - Activity 3: Notetaking strategy (see the added Note-taking video lesson in main Curriculum outline below)

    • Note-taking Video: How to Summarise while Note-taking

    • Module 4: see 47.12 - Advices Handout: Learning Maths, Science, Languages

    • Module 4: see 48.00 - Summarising using an Outline (see also added video clip in Module 4 Curriculum contents (next))

    • Module 4, see Video clip: How to Summarise using an Outline

    • Module 4: see Using Sketchnotes as a Study Strategy, a special contribution by Claire Comerford

    • Module 4, Activity 4: see 1:03:45 - Time to Self-Evaluate (summary type)

    • Module 4: Exemplar: Table Summary (Shakespeare's Dramas) (see video clip next in Curriculum outline)

    • Module 4, Video Clip: How to Summarise using a Table

    • Module 4, Exemplar: Mind Map (Rivers) see 1.03:15

    • Module 4: see Video clip - How to Summarise using a Venn Diagram

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    Module 5 Memory & Recall: The Study-Review System

    • Module 5: Memory & Recall, The Study-Review system Chapter

    • Module 5, Activity 1: see 38.45 - Definitions Frame

    • Module 5, How to set up Study-Review system using Master Revision plan: see 40-47 mins - Master Revision Plan (English)

    • Module 5, Exemplar: Mind Map (Rivers)

    • Memory & Recall video: How Short & Long term memory works

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    Module 6 Sitting the Exam, Managing Stress

    • Module 6: Sitting the Exam, Managing Stress Chapter

    • Module 6, Advices Handout: PQAR exam technique (see 16:45 mins)

    • Module 6, Activity 1: Physical tension checklist (see 26 mins)

    • Module 6, Activity 2: Mental & Emotional Tension checklist (see 27:40 mins)

    • Module 6, Advices Handout: Self Care & Wellbeing (see 37.30 - 43 mins)

  • 8

    Student Guidelines for Programme Usage

    • Student Guidelines for Programme and Minimum Usage

    • Student Progress Checklist

    • Module 4: Reading to Learn, Learning to Summarise Chapter (revised)

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This is for you if :

  • You find it hard to get motivated?
  • Experience difficulty studying?
  • Find summarising hard?
  • Disorganised, with no Study System?
  • Afraid you will not do well in exams?

This will help you :

  • Enable you to make learning easier
  • Build your confidence and competence to take control of your learning and make your own of it.
  • Equip you with study, learning and mindset strategies that you can apply to your work

What's in this course?

Blended learning programme spanning 6 modules, offering c.15 hours of content:

  • Module 1: How to Satisfy your Brain; Know your Learning Styles
  • Module 2: Motivation & Concentration
  • Module 3: Managing your Time, Learning to Plan
  • Module 4: Reading to Learn, Learning to Summarise (Study & Learning Strategies)
  • Module 5: Memory & Recall, The Study-Review System
  • Module 6: Sitting the Exam, Managing Stress

Videos to bring the concepts and strategies alive, developed with Irish students (12-20 years old).

Exciting resources in each Module (all downloadable) to help students embed the learning for themselves

Discussion forum where you can reach out and ask questions pertinent to your own situation at any time during the year


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