Advice

Advice for teachers

• Don't cover new material too quickly. If you tend to speak quickly, try to slow down. Also, leave a silence after an important sentence, so as to leave time for it to 'sink in'.
• Students need activities which encourage them to process new material. Activities that make students use-and hence develop a personal restructuring of-the ideas you are trying to teach them will make them learn more effectively than passive activities such as listening.
• For information to be stored in the long-term memory (LTM) it must be used and recall often. A teacher cannot expect to teach an idea in September and, without referring to it again, have the students remember it in June.