Episode 21: Make It Stick Author Peter Brown
…by having practiced using this information, students can adapt their knowledge to new situations, novel questions, and related contexts. You can use a variety of question types (fact-based, conceptual, complex or higher order, etc.) to ensure that students are not memorizing, but using information flexibly. ******************* The above comes from retrievalpractice.org, the link is provided on Lemov’s TLAC website. It has some useful downloadable pdfs on various topics (interleaving in mathematics, retrieval practice in elementary, and so on.) Clearly, the aspects of creativity and higher-order thinking can be embedded as part of retrieval practice – it is up to the…
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