Cognitive Load - Focus on the Stuff and Cut the Fluff

This podcast tackles memory – asking what teachers need to know about how students learn, forget and remember information.

Our experts offer a wealth of tangible teaching strategies as they discuss short-term, working and long-term memory, how they work and interact, and the implications for how we teach.

We discuss how we can direct pupils' attention, the limitations of short-term memory, and how to help students manage the cognitive load.

We discuss how to present information effectively so that students pay attention to it, how to build knowledge or schema, prior learning, pre-testing, and we ask what we should avoid doing.