Hi, I use to be a teacher  I teach government and literature to students andy experience was quite funny but worthwhile,

 I found out that students find in difficult to maintain dates and numbers, they do not  remember definitions, philosophical point of views and maybe theories, and what I did was back up my teachings with anecdotes and number patterns.

I also look for the dates or popular people in all walks of life and link them to my teachings, before I stopped teaching, I found out it really helped the students a lot.