Dr Stephen Chew, Professor of Psychology at Samford University takes us on a tour of “how to make teaching and learning more effective.” Learning only takes place in one location that’s inside your brain. If you understand the principles how …
This INSET our school benefited from an afternoon’s presentation and conversation with Sarah Cottingham @overpracticed. Sarah’s social threads and blog posts are becoming very popular indeed. Here is what I took away from her presentation in addition to what I …
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 …
On the back of “Generate questions, testing or restudy” here are my top five tips for generating retrieval questions for revision. Time efficiency – When time to learn is limited, it matters a great deal how one puts to use …
In Part 4 of this post, together with Ben Windsor @MrClassics3 we discussed the importance of the corrective feedback stage of using RememberMore’s Classroom (CRM) function in practicality. Read it here. The feedback stage of the RememberMore protocol closes the loop …
I can not remember when I first encountered Graham Nuthall’s research or exactly when I first read The Hidden Lives of Learners but it is one of those titles that often re-surfaces in talks and blog posts, still, having been …
Let’s start with understanding what “Learning Efficiency” is, as until this week, I had not encountered this term before. Learning Efficiency is the “positive relation between learning rate (speed of learning) and retention (amount remembered after a delay).” That definition …
Previously I made a commitment to take smaller, slower steps in investigating Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP). I returned more than a few times to that original post, adding snippets of learning here and there. The post ended up being rather …
