Enhancing Information Retention
I usually list the main goals of each day's class on the eraser board. At the end, of class I repeat the goals and ask probing questions. I keep suggesting to students to take notes or highlight key ideas in their textbooks and PowerPoint handouts. When I ask students why they don't take notes or highlight, they respond that they "have photographic memories". I believe that the suggested habits above increase student information retention. What else would encourage students to do something to retain new information?
Robert,
this is a great way to solidify the learning from the day & help them be prepared for the next content.
Ryan Meers, Ph.D.
I find that prior to the end of the day, I will recap as it were the information that we covered that day. Perhaps would be called debriefing. I ask questions about the information covered in the day. Important steps and procedures that were covered and the why for the procedures to give more understanding to why steps are done or to what we are looking for in a good sstem verses a bad system result and hope that they see through applying the procedures in a systematic way will help them to understand the systems and how diagnose the systems effectively.
Corliss,
what a great way to close the loop on each day's learning & to keep them focused ont he new content.
Ryan Meers, Ph.D.
I too place goals or objectives on the board every morning. At the end of the lesson I ask questions to see if students understood the information. On the next class session I will again ask questions about previous goals/objective to again review students’ knowledge level. If I feel the need to review a portion of the lesson I will.
