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Teachers Working With Working Memory


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How can teachers better support students and their working memory?

There is very little information available on interventions for working memory deficits. This research presents five guiding principles to support teacher-interventions for working memory.

Working With Working Memory Carol WestbyIn an interesting article, Working with Working Memory (Westby, 2020) summarises the cognitive process, working memory used as an executive function to help planning and problem-solving.

This particular work unpicks students with specific language impairments who are known to have working memory deficits, drawing upon

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Posted in Academic Research, Basic Account, Cognitive Science, Teaching and LearningTagged Carol Westby, Dual Coding, Graphic Organiser, Interventions, speech and language, Working Memory

5 thoughts on “Teachers Working With Working Memory”

  1. Veena Reddy says:
    6th September 2022 at 12:59 pm

    Very Insightful article. Hoping to read more like these with varied perspectives.

    1. Lynn How says:
      7th September 2022 at 11:46 pm

      Thanks for your feedback 🙂

  2. Svetlana says:
    13th October 2022 at 8:02 am

    Good to see common sense about the limits if working memory and how thoughtful teaching can optimise it . All based on serious research . Thank you

    1. @TeacherToolkit says:
      13th October 2022 at 8:20 am

      Thank you for reading; hope some of the findings influence you and your work.

  3. Marius Frank says:
    27th October 2022 at 8:05 am

    Very good- great tips to share
    Marius

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