If you haven’t used retrieval practices in your teaching or student/staff training before, what might you like to try?
What are some retrieval practices you have already incorporated into your teaching or training? How did they work out? What kinds of challenges did you encounter?
What kinds of challenges arose for you or what challenges do you anticipate?
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One thing that I do at the beginning of each class is to do some “check your mastery” questions – they are free recall questions that allow students to work on retrieving knowledge from the previous few lectures. I also include aspects like brain dumps before we dive into a topic (and the class has read in preparation) and connection activities to help students draw understanding between different topics that we are learning about.
When I teach reading scholarly articles in the sciences, I have students build an quick outline of the content of the article before they try and read the article in total. I describe this outline to them as a way to give your mind a place to put the new information you learn as you are reading, as you have already been exposed to the main idea of the article. I would like to try an incorporate some of the ideas presented in the readings as well and make it apparent to the student why we are trying them.
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