Research papers investigating “retrieval practice” continue to be published rather regularly. Fortuntely, at a pace that I can almost keep up to date with. This paper by Zheng et al., (2023) caught my attention as you rarely read papers which …
What are the takeaways? Reflections So many of the common garden variety routines and tasks we deliver as teachers has the potential to overload the shallow and fragile working memory capacities of our pupils. Pupils with poor working memory capacities …
…one of the limitations is that it is very hard to distinguish working memory from other types of high-level cognitive control systems. Dr Susan Gathercole First, let’s not lose sight of the number of children we are looking to support. …
When it comes to cognition, to thinking, to memory, theory is unavoidable; therefore, a model is almost always inevitable. These memory models emphasise the importance of the environment, of attention, and help us to understand the mechanics or processes of …
We pick up the story twenty-four years into my teaching career. Seven months into exploring how best to support the pupils in my classes diagnosed as, or recognised as, learning with dyslexia and / or with poor working memory. After …
The metaphor was largely Sarah Cottingham’s work. In presenting to TTCT I had developed the foundations of dynamic, adaptive and interconnected. After a first release there were a few questions and queries that led to a second draft. My opening …
SecEd released the second podcast today: A teacher’s guide to #memory – together with @helenfwebb @TWPerry1 @overpractised – a spun a yard. Summarised by @SecEd_Education as a “practical conversation on short-term, working & long-term memory & how students learn, forget …
I help young people feel more confident in themselves, to take ownership of their personal and academic development and flourish as young people. In essence, I help young people find their own key to unlock their potential. As a career …
