Uncommon Sense Teaching - Chapter 6

What do you understand by Interleaving Practice?

Q1) When we show or tell students step by step what to do or explain facts and relationships, we are teaching them through the ____________________.

• Procedural memory System

• Declarative memory System

• Retrieval Practice

• Blocked Practice

Q2) The procedural system comes about from _____________ action.

• long term memory

• working memory

• blocked

• habitual

Q3) When something is learned through the procedural system, it can be processed and performed ______________ and _____________ than knowledge formed by the declarative system.

• more rapidly

• slower

• with more practices

• automatically

Q4) Which learning system/s is the most powerful and flexible?

• Declarative

• Both

• Procedural

Q5) I___________ is when students mix up their practice of a topic , rather than merely repeating identical materials and questions in one block of time.

Q6) In order for students to internalise what they have learnt, at which stage would learning stick for them?

• I do

• We do

• You do

• Extend it

Q7) S_____ R_________ is when retrieval practice of the material is stretched over days or months.

Q8) Researchers have proclaimed these 2 methods as the best ways to build learning through the procedural system.

• retrieval practice

• blocked practice

• spaced repetition

• interleaving

Why is Interleaving Practice important?

(How does it help students in the acquisition of information?)