Mike Hughes has extensive experience of working with teachers to help them develop and improve their classroom practice. During an eighteen year teaching career, he worked as a head of department, deputy head and head teacher, and spent time working in an advisory capacity for Gloucestershire LEA in the field of teaching and learning. He is now advising and supporting a wide variety of schools in their efforts to improve teaching quality, both working at strategic leadership level and coaching individual teachers in the classroom. Having led a large secondary school, David Potter spent fifteen years in LEA advisory services, the last five of them as Chief Advisor in Gloucestershire. He is a Registered OFSTED Inspector, a Performance Management Consultant and a trainer on the NPQH programme.

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This resource aims to help the reader create an effective revision programme for his or her students. It is organized into a series of workshops based on recent research into the brain and how it works, giving students insight into how learning occurs and introducing them to revision techniques.

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Preface to the first edition Foreword Designing and leading your revision programme 10 ways to make your revision sessions more brain friendly Core workshops - Workshop One: My amazing brain Workshop Two: My amazing intelligence Workshop Three: Getting ready to revise Extension workshops - Workshop Four: Mind mapping Workshop Five: My amazing memory Workshop Six: Learning styles and how to use them Workshop Seven: Visualisation Workshop Eight: Preparing for exams A quick guide to the UFA Reading list Interesting websites Music to aid learning Acknowledgements Activities index