Had the pleasure of doing a training session for teachers and school leaders in West Texas yesterday at Region 17 Educational Service Center in Lubbock. It was, from my perspective, a great day in which we studied “game film” of teachers. Hopefully it helped folks in the session fall back in love with teaching…
If you’ve read TLAC 3.0 you know we’re big on knowledge organizers and retrieval practice over at TLAC Towers, so it was with great excitement that members of our team met up with Art Worrell, Uncommon Schools’ Director of 5-12 History, this week to look at footage of how history teachers were using and applying retrieval…
A few weeks ago I co-wrote an article with Kate Jones on the idea of retrieval practice questions. After some further conversations Kate shared this new reflection on how to use exit tickets to build long-term memory and learning. Inspired by a recent conversation with Doug on Teachers Talk Radio, I have been reflecting…
After eighteen months, schools are at last welcoming students back to classrooms. But even as it feels like we’re approaching some semblance of classroom normalcy, questions about how we can help students catch up academically after a year of virtual/hybrid instruction loom large. Although it can be hard to precisely quantify the academic impact of this…
All of our recent TLAC books include discussions of a graph that all teachers should know about: the ‘Forgetting Curve.’ It describes how learners forget things over time and how retrieval practice can arrest this process. The original Forgetting Curve was derived in the 1880s by the German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus and plotted…