How Memory Impacts How the Brain Learns

How Memory Impacts How the Brain Learns

Study Guide

Multiple Select

Select all that apply: What are some of the factors that affect retention and learning?

• focus, attention, and awareness of the learner

• prime time & rehearsal

• teaching method & learning profiles

• length of teaching episode

Multiple Choice

Does practice make perfect?

• Practice does not make perfect. It makes permanent.

• Practice does make perfect.

Multiple Select

What type of practice makes perfect?

• Perfect practice makes perfect. Correct guided practice followed by independent practice.

• Independent practice then guided practice. Any kind of practice makes perfect.

• Wrong practice over time, but then relearning the correct way, because what you had been practicing was wrong.

How to achieve that Perfect Practice?

• Guided practice with corrective feedback; When the practice is correct, then work on independent practice.

• Distributed practice and the spacing effect with learner directly focused on the learning

• Continually practicing previously learned skills throughout the year

• "I do, we do, you do together, you do alone."

Multiple Select

What affects retrieval? Select all that apply.

• Adequacy of the Cues

• Mood and Beliefs of the Retriever

• Context of the Retrieval

• System of Storage

Increasing Rate of Retrieval

• Chunking: Group items based off of experiences to help the working memory

• Frequent Rehearsal and Recall

Poll

Which practices would you implement to increase accurate memory and retrieval?

• Avoid Teaching Two Very Similar Motor Skills

• Using Rehearsal to Enhance Retention

• Using the Primacy-Recency Effect in the Classroom

• Using Practice Effectively

• Relearning Through Recall

Poll

What other practices would you use to increase accurate memory and retrieval?

• Circadian Rhythms on Schools and Classrooms

• Wait Time

• Chunking

• Using Mnemonics

The 1st practice I would implement in my classroom to increase accurate memory and retrieval (& why):

• Using Wait Time to Increase Student Participation: I would use this strategy because often times a question is asked, but I am not sure how long I truly am waiting for all students to have an opportunity to retrieve the information. Now that I know more about the rates of retrieval, I can allow for at least 5 seconds or more of wait time. This will allow more students to process and practice the information, allow for higher order responses, build confidence, and increase participation for slower learners. How they learn to process and the effort they put in is first build in the younger grades and can be carried with them throughout their academic careers.  

The 2nd practice I would implement in my classroom to increase accurate memory and retrieval (& why):

• Using Chunking to Enhance Retention: I will use this strategy because in kindergarten, students are learning how to read. By learning to chunk spelling patterns, they will become more fluent in reading whole words. Then they can chunk whole words to makes sense of a whole phrase or sentence. This will help them become fluent readers and kickstart their comprehension skills.