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SOTW: Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning 10/30/2009 2:00 PM TO: All Staff FR: Michelle J. Walker, Chief Accountability Officer Stephen Schellenberg, Assistant Director, REA RE: SOTW: Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning From the attached report: Much of teaching is about helping students master new knowledge and skills and then helping students not to forget what they have learned. The recommendations in this practice guide are intended to provide teachers with specific strategies for organizing both instruction and students’ studying of material to facilitate learning and remembering information, and to enable students to use what they have learned in new situations. One distinguishing characteristic of our recommendations is a relatively high degree of concreteness. Concrete questions about how to promote learning were the main focus of the earliest work in educational psychology during the first half of the 20th Century.5 However, concrete choices about procedures and timing received much less attention in the later part of the 20th Century. In the past 5 years or so, partly due to support from the ------------------------------------------------ 5 E.g., Mace (1932); Starch (1927). For the full report, please click on the link below. Thank you. |
