Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning

by Pooja K. Agarwal

when we deliberately recall information, it forces us to pull our knowledge out and examine what we know.

If we want students to think on a higher-order level, then we should make sure our retrieval questions are basic and higher-order.

retrieval practice produces more robust transfer than any other research-based strategy to date.

Retrieval practice before a lesson is beneficial for understanding in the short term, but Retrieval practice after a lesson is beneficial for retention in the long term.

we may expect that all of our students are retrieving when we ask questions during lessons, but it's likely that they aren't receiving any benefit unless they're the one being called on. It's important to have all students write down or verbally share their responses individually.