1. You must remember this…

2. Do you remember this man?

3. Didn’t you do well?

4. Different kinds of memory
Procedural memory
Learned skills
Lasts for: lifetime, once skill is established
Examples:
handwriting
riding a bike

5. Different Kinds of Memory
Semantic memory
Facts, knowledge
Lasts for: a lifetime, if used sufficiently frequently
Examples:
knowing that Paris is the capital of France
knowing the meaning of words

6. Different Kinds of Memory
Autobiographical memory
Stored facts and significant events from your life
Lasts for: a lifetime
Examples:
first day at school
your wedding day

7. Different Kinds of Memory
Episodic memory
Records details of particular experiences
Lasts for: up to several days
Examples:
Remembering breakfast this morning
Where did you park the car?

8. Different Kinds Of Memory
Working memory
Mental workspace
Lasts for: seconds only
Examples:
Following instructions such as “When you pass the
church on the left, turn immediately right and take the
second left”
Mental arithmetic

9. Key Features of Working Memory
Capacity to hold material in mind and manipulate as necessary for brief period
Mental workspace
Limited in capacity
Catastrophic loss

10. Working Memory and Learning
Working Memory ability is important because:
it is closely associated with the ability to learn, and academic attainment
it does not appear to be affected by experience such as prior education, socio economic status or ethnic group membership

11. What do we do in school to develop children’s ability to remember things?
Spelling tests?
Mental maths?
Games?
Telling them the same thing over and over again?
Mnemonics?
Quizzes?

12. What works?

13. What doesn’t work?

14. The Leitner System Let’s see how it works in this video
What we need:
4 children from your class…who struggle to remember key facts – e.g. spellings
A short block of time with them every day
A few willing volunteers to support with resources – limited workload
Four weeks