Memory
Explicit Teaching Elements
Cognitive Load Theory
Explicit Teaching Elements
General
100

This type of memory allows you to temporarily hold information, like remembering a phone number just long enough to dial it.

What is working memory?

100

A statement that indicates the learning of the lesson or sequence of lessons?

What is a learning intention?

100

This type of cognitive load is determined by the complexity of the material and the learner's prior knowledge.

What is intrinsic load?

100

Something that we start the lesson with to help students remember and recall information

What is daily review?

100

The name of the graph that indicates that we will not recall new information if we don't review it within 7 days.

What is the Forgetting Curve? OR What is the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve?

200

This memory system stores information for extended periods, sometimes for an entire lifetime.

What is long-term memory?

200

A series of statements that let a student know how to do well in their learning

What is a success criteria?

200

This type of load results from the way information is presented and can be reduced by improving instructional design.

What is extrinsic load?

200

Something we use so that students know what the end product should look like.

What is a model? OR What is an exemplar?

200

A strategy for combating the forgetting curve

What is review? OR What is daily, weekly or monthly review?

300

This type of memory lets you recall personal experiences, like your last birthday party.

What is episodic memory?

300

Questions that a teacher may ask to make sure students are on the right track

What is 'check for understanding'?

300

This cognitive load is associated with the process of attaching new information to previous information. This helps move new content from working memory to long term memory.

What is germane load?

300

Something that helps students find the links between content that they are studying

What is connecting learning?

300

Michael McDowell is a proponent of this continuum of thinking

What is surface, transfer, deep?

400

This memory type stores general world knowledge, like knowing that Paris is the capital of France.

What is semantic memory?

400

Another term for the, 'I do, We do, You do' model

What is the gradual release of responsibility?

400

The concept that students will eventually reach saturation point and can no longer learn new information or content.

What is cognitive load? OR What is cognitive load theory?

400

The process of breaking down lesson activities in a logical order to help students learn.

What is chunking and sequencing?

400

The man who is credited with creating the forgetting curve?

Who is Ebbinghaus?

500

You rely on this type of memory when riding a bike or tying your shoes without consciously thinking about it.

What is procedural memory? OR What is a procedure/process?

500

Teachers provide this to students to ensure that they know what to do to improve.

What is feedback?

500

A template that helps students organise their ideas.

What is a graphic organiser?

500

Teachers ask these to promote thinking and to challenge students.

What is effective questioning?

500

A part of the brain that helps us remember things that we are alert to.

What is the reticular activating system?

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