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Episode 58: Six Learning Strategies You MUST Share with Your Students

…who are in their cars. Teachinghow2s.com. WEINSTEIN: With a “2,” yeah. GONZALEZ: So we have covered so far spaced practice, retrieval practice and elaboration. What is next? 4. Interleaving WEINSTEIN: Next is interleaving. Now this one can be quite similar to spacing, in a way, but it’s a slightly different strategy. So the idea is that when you’re sitting down to study, and let’s say you’re doing some math problems. This is most highly applicable to subjects that have problems, like math, physics, but it can also be applied to others. So let’s say you’re doing a bunch of math…

Episode 123: Four Research-Based Strategies All Teachers Should Use

…is called interleaving. And interleaving, I’ll mention this briefly, is a strategy again with lots of research behind it, where students retain and learn more information when they mix it up. So I’ll give you a few examples first. One example is from a student of mine at the Berklee College of Music. So I teach musicians, but I teach psychology and neuroscience to musicians, and I had a student struggling with remembering. She came to my office and said, you know, I’m trying to remember the lyrics for this song that I have to play. She was in a…

Four Research-Based Strategies Every Teacher Should be Using

…first they were uncomfortable, and at first I’m like, Gee, I didn’t teach that very well. But it’s actually a benefit. It’s a bit counterintuitive, but it’s important for students to forget. Because with spacing, they bring it back up, and that then solidifies that learning moving forward.” 3. Interleaving Rather than asking students to retrieve similar types of information in one continuous session, apply the principle of interleaving, which mixes up content from different areas. “Students retain and learn more information when they mix it up,” Agarwal explains. Classroom Application: Resist the temptation to let students “get on a…

6 Powerful Learning Strategies You MUST Share with Students

…then check the materials to make sure their understanding is correct. Here’s how Smith and Weinstein explain elaboration: Teachers can apply this strategy by having brief class discussions where these kinds of questions are explored and asking students to work elaboration into their own study plans. 4. Interleaving Switch between ideas while you study. Common knowledge tells us that to learn a skill, we should practice it over and over again. While repetition is vital, research says we will actually learn that skill more effectively if we mix our practice of it with other skills. This is known as interleaving….

Book Pick for Summer 2015: Make it Stick

…difficulties in practice, waiting to re-study new material until a little forgetting has set in, and interleaving the practice of one skill or topic with another. Speaking most urgently to students, teachers, trainers, and athletes, Make It Stick will appeal to all those interested in the challenge of lifelong learning and self-improvement. And two reviews that convinced me: “Many educators are interested in making use of recent findings about the human brain and how we learn… Make It Stick [is] the single best work I have encountered on the subject. Anyone with an interest in teaching or learning will…

To Boost Learning, Just Add Movement

…lesson, apply the principles of retrieval practice by repeating the movements in short practice sessions, spacing them out over time, and interleaving concepts with one another. For younger students, meaningful gestures matter more. While adults learn from both iconic gestures (those that have some meaning in relation to the concept they are connected to) and beat gestures (those that have no inherent meaning but are just tied to particular “beats” in a sentence or phrase), younger children learned more from iconic gestures (So, Sim Chen-Hui, & Low Wei-Shan, 2012). So when working with younger students, try to make the gestures…

Episode 177 Transcript

…practice, spacing, interleaving and feedback kind of in that realm. And I think Learning Scientists also kind of picked on the five or sex. And the reason behind that isn’t that that’s all that the research has to offer, which I’ve sometimes come across from educators like, “Oh. So I know those five things. I know education research. It’s most because those five to six findings have repeatedly stood the test of time for decades. GONZALEZ: Right. SUNDAR: So that’s, you know, I definitely recommend those. There’s also the American Educator published by AFT, which is a practitioner-focused journal. And…

Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

…become. That really made me think about how much elementary education has turned to interactive notebooks the last few years. I had already begun to reexamine my use of them, believing they weren’t giving me the results I wanted to see. Now, I can understand why because students do not need to forge a path, again. Love your site, too. I immediately signed up for your newsletter and purchased the “Make It Stick” book. Susan McMillan …years later. I’m wondering how to avoid the pitfalls of mile-wide/inch-deep spiraling that happened in math curricula, while putting into practice the interleaving techniques….

Retrieval Practice: The Most Powerful Learning Strategy You’re Not Using

…retention? 2. If you know of any retrieval practice research specific to end-of-semester exams or other “summative” testing, could you please refer it to me? Thank you! Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph.D. You are most welcome, Frankie. Thank you for listening and for sharing these research-based strategies with students in clinical settings. Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph.D. Research demonstrates that pairing pictures with words can enhance learning. I recommend learning more about “dual coding” from the Learning Scientists at learningscientists.org. Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph.D. I love knowing how successful the strategy of interleaving is for you and your daughter! I have more…