Teaching with Encoding, Storage & Retrieval in Mind
Course Number:
MT201
PD Hours:
24 Hours
Credit Type:
Clock Hours, CPEs, CTLEs, Act48 Credits, Others
Content Areas:
Testing Strategies, Lesson & Curriculum Planning, Social / Emotional, Social Studies, Teaching Strategies
Course Description:
(24 Hrs) This course will define memory theories and help participants learn about the three memory processes: encoding, storage, and retrieval. By the end of the course, participants will be able to explicitly teach strategies and incorporate them into their daily practices to develop students’ encoding and storage skills and, most importantly, their ability to recall information from memory.
What You Will Learn In This Course:
What memory theories are and why it is important to understand them as an educator
The basics of several of the most well-known memory theories, including four theories each on encoding, storage, and retrieval
How to apply your knowledge of these theories to your lesson planning process to teach specific strategies that encourage efficient memory encoding and storage
How to apply your knowledge of these theories to teach specific strategies that allow your students to recall content knowledge when it is needed
Course includes 32 high-quality tools, templates, & student resources.
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$60
Includes One year of Course Access, Fully Self-Paced & Online.
You have probably watched a student cram the night before a test, re-reading notes and highlighting random facts, only to forget most of it by the following week. Memory does not work the way many students (and many teachers) assume it does. Psychologists have spent decades developing memory theories that explain how the brain takes in new information, retains it, and retrieves it when a student needs it.
This course provides teachers with a working knowledge of 12 memory theories across the three stages of memory: encoding, storage, and retrieval. You will study each theory, see it play out in classroom scenarios, and learn the instructional strategies to put it into practice. By the end of the course, you will build a three-part plan you can apply to your own lesson planning, your own students, and your own content area.
You Will Learn:
What a memory theory is, how encoding, storage, and retrieval fit together, and why a teacher’s grasp of these stages shapes what students remember.
Four encoding theories (Levels of Processing, Dual Coding, Schema, and Embodied Cognition) and the teaching moves that support each one.
Four storage theories (Multi-Store Model of Memory, Consolidation, Synaptic Plasticity, and Interference) and how to use them to move student knowledge into long-term memory.
Four retrieval theories (Pre-Testing Effect, Testing Effect, Spacing, and Desirable Difficulty) and the classroom routines that help students recall what they have learned.
Examples of how to easily integrate these theories and strategies into any classroom.
How to build a three-part action plan that applies encoding, storage, and retrieval strategies to your classroom.
Course Guiding Question:
How can I incorporate knowledge of memory theories into my lessons and classroom practices to ensure that my students can actively encode and store information as they learn new content and later recall it accurately?
Professional Development Credits
At the conclusion of the course, you will receive a certificate for 24 Professional Development Hours (Clock Hours, CPEs).
Model Teaching Professional Development Courses are pre-approved in many states, and we provide easy approval forms to submit to your license-granting authority if required.
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Approval Information About This Course for Teaching License Renewal & Continuing Education
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This course is pre-approved in the following states for License Renewal and Continuing education:
Texas – CPE’s, TEA-Approved
New York CTLE’s – NYSED-Approved
Pennsylvania DOE – ACT 48-Approved
Montana Office of Public Instruction (OPI) – Approved
Nevada DOE
Tennessee
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Topics Covered and General Course Outline
Section 1 – Defining Memory Theories
The meaning of memory theories
The memory processes of encoding, storage, and retrieval
Why it is important for teachers to understand these theories and how they can be applied to teaching and learning
Section 2 – Encoding Theories
About the Levels of Processing Theory and the Dual Coding Theory, which describe HOW learners encode knowledge
About the importance of organizing information into a schema with the Schema Theory
About the impact of body movement on learning with the Embodied Cognition Theory
Section 3 – Strategies to Support Encoding
How the four encoding theories align with classroom instruction
How to support the development of your students’ encoding skills with specific instructional strategies
Section 4 – Storage Theories
About 3 types of memory with the Multi-Store Model of Memory Theory
How sleep impacts memory storage with the Consolidation Theory
How our brains are constantly changing through the Theory of Synaptic Plasticity
How the Interference Theory can cause people to forget things
Section 5 – Strategies to Support Storage
How the four storage theories align with classroom instruction
How to support the development of your students’ storage capacity with specific instructional strategies
Section 6 – Retrieval Theories
How pre-testing and testing impact learning with the Pre-Testing and Testing Effect theories of retrieval
How spacing of knowledge is critical with the Spacing Theory
How does incorporating “desirable difficulties” in a learning task increase learning
Section 7 – Strategies to Support Retrieval
How the four retrieval theories align with classroom instruction
How to support the development of your students’ retrieval ability with specific instructional strategies
Section 8 – Classroom Application
Review your Section 1 Knowledge Pre-Check to determine what you have learned
Consider the big picture of how your new knowledge can and should impact the instructional practices in your classroom
Helpful Resources & Templates Included With the Course
The course comes with 32 templates, tools, and graphic organizers ready to be used in your classroom!
