Rate of Forgetting
The all-encompassing question that goes at the top of your Cornell Notes page
What is the Essential Question?
Defining how students will use language (listening, speaking, reading, or writing) to accomplish a content-based task
What is a language objective?
Close your notes, take a blank piece of paper and write down everything you remember from scratch, no peaking
What is Brain Dump Review?
Without reinforcement, most newly learned information fades rapidly from our minds
What is rapid decline?
Receiving meaningful messages that the learner can process naturally
What is comprehensible input?
Individuals who learn most effectively through listening, and speaking, rather than reading or visualizing
What is an auditory learner?
Students review content through movement and peer interaction
What is the Quiz-Trade-Quiz game?
Revisiting information at increasing intervals can dramatically improve long-term retention
What is the spacing effect?
This is what you call separating notes into sections
What is Chunking?
Absorbs information best by seeing it—using images, graphs, diagrams, and written notes rather than spoken words
What is a visual learner?
With a partner students orally repeat and summarize learning
What is a Partner Retell?
A powerful tool for anyone who wants to learn smarter
What is the forgetting curve?
Students revise notes by underlining, highlighting, circling, questioning, adding, organizing main ideas and details
What is processing notes?
Understand best through physical experience, movement, and hands-on activities rather than listening to lectures or reading
What is a kinesthetic learner?
Learners review information several times over increasing intervals
What is spaced repetition?
Fast but limited memory that can only hold so much before it starts dropping things
What is short-term memory?
Sleep, movement and focused study time supports better memory
What is taking care of your brain?
Students demonstrate what they've learned or apply it to a new situation
What is applying learning?
Creating a "Can Do" statement that integrates a specific language function (e.g., describe, explain), the content topic, and support strategies (e.g., word banks, sentence frames) tailored to student proficiency levels
What is a language objective using WIDA standards?
Learners summarize information in their own words, teach concepts to a classmate, use visuals to make learning more meaningful
What is repeated exposure?
Studies show that without proper breaks – stress builds up continuously in the brain. Performance drops; focus drops; retention drops
What is taking structured breaks?