How To Teach So Students Remember

by Marilee Sprenger

Offers a seven-step plan detailing how teachers can promote better recall for daily classroom learning and important tests.

Genres: Education, Teaching, Nonfiction, Psychology

204 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2005

About the author

Marilee is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the Learning and the Brain Society, and the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. She is an adjunct professor at Aurora University, teaching graduate courses on brain based teaching, learning and memory, and differentiation.

Reviews

[Citra Rizcha Maya]

Saya bukan penggemar berat buku teks, tapi buku ini penting untuk saya baca. Setidaknya ada tujuh langkah untuk mengingat yang berguna untuk saya ketahui; reach, reflect, recode, reinforce, rehearse, review, retrieve. Masalahnya satu, sulit sekali bagi otak untuk menerima informasi ketika orang tersebut terlalu emosional. Nah! Saya menemukan penyebab sulitnya untuk melekatkan informasi dalam ingatan saya.

[Rachel Edstrom]

For a textbook, it was pretty helpful and not too annoying to read. I liked that a lot of the techniques presented weren't gimmicky and were researched based.

[Kelly Allan]

As a educator half way through my career I did not learn anything in this book I didn't already know. It would be a good read for someone new to the career though.

[Jackie Mulkey]

Late Log

[Gry]

As textbooks go, this one was much more readable than most. It had a lot of helpful hints about how to help students to commit the things you teach them to long term memory. The parts about how the human brain works to remember things for the short and long term were very interesting. I can't say there is anything earth-shattering about the content of this book; much of what is presented is what I find myself already doing in the lessons I teach, but it is nice to know the research behind the methods that work. It's always good to have a solid justification for the way one teaches something to students. If you're interested in how students remember information and how you can help them to do so, this is a good readable resource.

[Mothwing]

Nothing entirely new in these seven steps for more effective learning, and the examples don't really fit my subjects and generally always require more prep-time than I have for any classroom I teach in, but the general gist is helpful and presented in a motivating way. I can't see any of this implemented any time soon, though, as long as everything in our work depends entirely on every person's individual intrinsic motivation to do better than before and does not come with regular team meetings - at least at my school. Innovating alone surely isn't effective.

[Kristen]

I read this as a part of my course work for this summer. It was a good review of some things I already knew and gave me name/terminology for other things that I was familiar with. There is nothing earth shattering here, but it's a good reminder of the things that we can do to make the information we expect students to remember easier.

[Laura]

Read it for a class. Good review.

[Eleni Mall]

It is a very reader-friendly book.I really liked the real/personal anecdotes.It helped me reconsider and enrich my teaching practices.

[Jennifer Gentles]

Some helpful tips... Some things are common sense.