Here the teacher is not supposed to talk on a particular concept for a quite long time. But to make it clear to the students he/she can just go on saying mnemonics or its associated meaning in words. Here he/she goes on saying only words instead of sentence, and once they come to a basic understanding of the meaning of a particular concept then the teacher will explain in sentences. For example, in teaching language courses this technique can be used as an effective medium by the teacher to develop word power.
- Dictionary must be used widely
- Word power increases
- Teacher also gets to know many words pertaining to a particular concept.
Goals
- One essential goal of teaching with such memory tools enables students to create and use their own tools, or “mnemonics, “to improve recall. [MW1]
- In mnemonic instruction, students relate new information to what they have already earned through visual and verbal cues. [MW2]
- A primary goal of mnemonic instruction is to have students adopt mnemonic strategies and use the mind independently to facilitate the transition from teacher-created to student-created mnemonics. [MW3]
Method
One effective mnemonic is a verbal elaborative strategy that successfully links known information to unknown information, usually through an acoustic proxy. In this basic form, an unknown word sounds like a known word [keyword] and is related in picture or image to the definition. For example, rana, which means frog in Italian, sounds like rain, and the student, forms an image of a frog sitting in the rain.
The key word strategy, begin by prioritizing and choosing the most import ant vocabulary, terms, and concepts students should remember. Choose acoustically similar key words familiar to all students
To facilitate the transition from teacher-created to student-created mnemonics.
Benefits
- Incorporate mnemonic strategies as much as possible in your teaching.
- Apply attributions (i.e., “If you use the strategies, you will remember the information.”)
- Induce the creation of the strategies.
- Help students create strategies and use class brain storming. Identify important information or associations.
- Create key words or other relevant verbal elaborations.
- Relate the key word to the associated information.
- Execute the steps to retrieve the information.
- Have individual students create strategies.
- Monitor and evaluate the independent creation of mnemonic strategies.
Mnemonics Words have been used in the following Subjects
|
S.No |
Name of the faculty |
Subject |
Year & semester |
A.Y |
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1 |
Mrs.P.Madhavi |
Data Structures |
II–I |
2019-20 |
|
2 |
Mr.M.Narendra |
Database Management Systems |
II–II |
|
|
3 |
Dr.A.Prashanth Rao |
Software Engineering |
III-I |
|
|
4 |
Mrs.M.Kavitha |
Web Technologies |
III–II |
|
|
5 |
Dr.S.Sivaprakash |
Computer Organization and Micro Processor |
II–I |
2020-21 |
|
6 |
Dr.X.S.Asha Shiny |
Operating System |
II-II |
|
|
7 |
Mr.K.Anil |
Formal Languages and Automata Theory |
III-I |
|
|
8 |
Dr.Rajesh Tiwari |
Principles of Compiler Construction |
III-II |
|
|
9 |
Mrs.P.Madhavi |
Discrete Mathematics |
II-I |
2021-22 |
|
10 |
Dr.Rajesh Tiwari |
Python Programming |
II-II |
|
|
11 |
Mrs.M.Kavitha |
Machine Learning |
III-I |
|
|
12 |
Mr .B.Kishor |
Internet of Things |
III-II |
|
|
13 |
Mrs.G.Swetha |
Computer Organization & Architecture |
II-I |
2022-23 |
|
14 |
Mrs.C.Madhuri |
Database Management Systems |
II-II |
|
|
15 |
Mrs.M.Jhansi Lakshmi |
Artificial Intelligence |
III-I |
|
|
16 |
Dr.X.S.Asha Shiny |
Machine Learning |
III-II |
Specific Outcome of Mnemonics Words in mapping to their objectives as follows
- The effectiveness is observed in verbal elaboration from known information to unknown information[O-MW1]
- It has improved memory of key information on short-term memory to recall [O-MW2]
- In instructional materials need not to keep wealth of additional materials to keep for the teaching. [O-MW3]
Peer review and critique
List of Mnemonic Words is cross checked with the subjects is given to peer review and expert committee for identifying any difficulties and suggestions. The following are the guidelines given by the committee to implement the above method effectively.
- To make Use of Computer Dictionary to select the words and abbreviations.
- Identify the sequence of words in the topics with proper cons and GUI’s
- Use of Appropriate Assessment Methods to measure the students’ performance (Ex. Quiz, Brain storming etc.).
