Swing your #AxeOfKindness and make a donation to the Center for NAU's Giving Day on May 1. Make a Gift!

September 28, 2023

The Learning Scientists Part 5: More Effective Strategies to Support Teaching and Learning

In this final episode of our series with The Learning Scientists, Dr. Megan Sumeracki dives into more detail about the three teaching and learning strategies of elaboration, concrete examples, and dual coding.

The Learning Scientists, a group of cognitive psychologists, have developed six main strategies to support your teaching and your students’ learning. In the previous episode, Dr. Sumeracki and Dr. Althea Need Kaminske talked about the strategies of spaced practice, interleaving, and retrieval practice. Today, Dr. Sumeracki talks in-depth about the remaining three strategies:

  • Elaboration, connecting new learning to previous learning
  • Concrete examples, providing supporting information
  • Dual coding, using visuals 

A synopsis of these strategies and resources to help use them is at this link and you can find the full research paper at this link.

Learn more about The Learning Scientists at learningscientists.org and learn more about the Arizona K12 Center at azk12.org.

Being an educator in the 21st century is indescribably complex. There’s a constant pressure to meet standards and help students achieve, but there’s also a need to allow learners to color outside the lines in an effort to prompt creativity. To support educators along the continuum, the Center developed “3Ps in a Pod” to further dissect practice, policy, and passion in the field of education.

Arizona K12 Center

 

loading iconPlease Wait
loading icon