Teaching and Learning
Teach For Long Term Learning by Retrieving from Students’ Long Term Memory
Help pupils hold on to what you've taught, so it comes back to them in the exam hall and in next year's topics.
- 34 minutes
- 7 modules
- 0.5 CPD hours
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Plan spaced practice that returns to topics at longer intervals
- Mix topics with interleaved practice to strengthen recall
- Run frequent low-stakes quizzes as a learning tool
- Revisit prior learning in new contexts and formats
- Teach pupils to self-quiz, elaborate and reflect when they revise
About this course
A pupil who understood something perfectly in October can stare blankly at the same question in May. Getting it into long-term memory was only half the job, and we forget a surprising amount within a day.
The other half is getting it back out. Spaced practice brings pupils back to material just as they're about to forget it. Interleaving mixes topics up, so they have to work out which idea fits. Low-stakes quizzes become a way of learning rather than a test. Each time you come back to something, pupils do something new with it: teach it, draw it, quiz a friend.
Most useful of all, you can teach pupils to do this for themselves. Self-quizzing, elaboration and reflection work far better than rereading notes, and pupils who know that revise better.
- For early career teachers and teachers. Post-16, primary and secondary.
7 modules
Open in order
- 5 min
Introduction
- 2 min
Wrap up
- 8 min
Deliberate practice
- 7 min
Spaced and interleaved practice
- 3 min
Multiple contexts
- 7 min
Quizzing
- 6 min
Revision and self-study skills