This chapter was eye-opening! To think that we can actually train our students to have better working memory and therefore better retention of learning is amazing! This is an area that I would like to see our school embrace as a focus for this school year in terms of learning even more about working memory and the best ways to improve the working memory of our students.
If an item in working memory (short-term memory) really only lasts for 5-30 seconds, then we as teachers must find ways to aid the reactivation of the item so that our students can retain and retrieve the information. This would require us to look at the format of our instruction and redesign the way we teach our students. I can't wait to work as a staff on the changes that we would like to make this year and years to come.
I agree with Heather that this would be great for us to work on this year. I know that I especially need to figure out how to help my first graders move items from short-term memory to long term memory. It's difficult when their attention spans are so short, but I'm game for trying any suggestions we come up with.
I agree that we need to focus on helping students to move information from short term memory to long term memory. I am constantly struggling with students who seemed to know "it" yesterday, but act like it's a foreign idea the next day. They seem to really try, but evidently are unable to retain information.
This chapter was eye-opening! To think that we can actually train our students to have better working memory and therefore better retention of learning is amazing! This is an area that I would like to see our school embrace as a focus for this school year in terms of learning even more about working memory and the best ways to improve the working memory of our students.
ReplyDeleteIf an item in working memory (short-term memory) really only lasts for 5-30 seconds, then we as teachers must find ways to aid the reactivation of the item so that our students can retain and retrieve the information. This would require us to look at the format of our instruction and redesign the way we teach our students. I can't wait to work as a staff on the changes that we would like to make this year and years to come.
I agree with Heather that this would be great for us to work on this year. I know that I especially need to figure out how to help my first graders move items from short-term memory to long term memory. It's difficult when their attention spans are so short, but I'm game for trying any suggestions we come up with.
ReplyDeleteI agree that we need to focus on helping students to move information from short term memory to long term memory. I am constantly struggling with students who seemed to know "it" yesterday, but act like it's a foreign idea the next day. They seem to really try, but evidently are unable to retain information.
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