Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
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 …
Perusall has been bookmarked for a month. It has been a busy month. So what is Persuall? Developed at Harvard University, it is a more controlled, or evolved version of the flipped classroom. Think – intelligent discussion boards (and in …
More than ten years Back in 2011, I encountered the research of Dr Jeff Karpicke via a Purdue University press release. At the time I added a note to the blog post. “One to follow up on. Testing promotes learning. …
“It should come as no surprise that students are often reluctant to engage in strenuous learning activities when the benefits of their efforts are so short-lived.” The above statement about revision is unlikely to shock any teacher however that is …
More on MARCKS and concurrent metacognition Metacognitive monitoring concerns learners’ ability to assess the progress of their learning. The accuracy of their metacognitive monitoring influences study choices and, consequently, how well information is learned and retained. Learners misinterpret momentary accessibility …
This is essential reading for parents of pupils preparing for exams and pupils themselves. Results from two experiments indicate that even when people are successful at maintaining sustained attention – as when avoiding the temptation to check their phones -the …
End of year assessments – What to do before. What to do after. To get more learning from ‘End of Year Assessments.’ Under the umbrella of a twin-track school ethos of “happy and successful” and “growth and excellence” (pupils and …
Tonight’s reading, “Techniques for scaffolding retrieval practice: The costs and benefits of adaptive versus diminishing cues.” Fiechter & Benjamin (2019) are investigating retrieval difficulty. With difficulty manipulated by providing easier or harder, more or fewer retrieval cues. In this case …
