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  • Support for early career teachers
  • Education Development Trust
  • Year 2: Second half-term: how pupils learn - making it stick

    • Learning outcomes

    The intended outcomes of this activity are for you to:

    Learn that
    2.1 Learning involves a lasting change in pupils’ capabilities or understanding.
    2.3 An important factor in learning is memory, which can be thought of as comprising two elements: working memory and long-term memory.
    2.7 Regular purposeful practice of what has previously been taught can help consolidate material and help pupils remember what they have learned.
    2.8 Requiring pupils to retrieve information from memory, and spacing practice so that pupils revisit ideas after a gap are also likely to strengthen recall.

    In your notepad

    Key questions

    • why is it important that pupils remember what they have learned?
    • what is practice testing and what impact does it have?
    • why is feedback during practice important?
    • what makes retrieval practice so effective in helping pupils to remember over time?