Title: Five Big Ideas for Effective Teaching
Author(s): Donna Wilson, Marcus Conyers
Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York
ISBN: 9780807763766 Pages: 224 Year: 2020
Exciting new research conducted over the past decade places retrieval practice squarely within a group of powerful learning and memory strategies that can help to transform student achievement! Simply put, retrieval practice is the act of trying to recall information without having it in front of you.
Traditionally, teachers have worked long and hard to download lots of information into young brains—that is, to teach so that students encode knowledge into long-term memory with tools such as lecture and review sheets. In the past, it has been said that when such methods were used, teachers often learned more than the students because they were working hard while students were passive recipients of knowledge.
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