PLE 5: Memory Process

How might your knowledge of the memory processes guide your instructional decisions?

          Having the knowledge of how our brain retrieves memories and information is important for a teacher as we often call on our students and demand answers out of them. But a knowledgeable teacher will realize that they need to give a wait time of approximately three seconds before calling on someone to answer so that students have enough time to process the information and hen draw upon their own information.

            I think it is also important to teach about how to remember something just like it is important to reach study skills. I would do this in my classroom through modeling. It is difficult for an adult to remember some of the things that we require of children so routinely showing the children and practicing memory games and techniques. I think this can start as early as having to learn a nursery rhyme my memory in kindergarten or first grade.

This article shows how students who have teachers that demonstrate and encourage the practice of memory techniques preformed better than students whose teachers did not emphasize memory as strongly. 

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8624.1992.tb01653.x/abstract