Interweaving THE ROLE OF RETRIEVAL, SPACING AND INTERLEAVING IN THE CURRICULUM BY MARK ENSER
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Interweaving THE ROLE OF RETRIEVAL, SPACING AND INTERLEAVING
IN THE CURRICULUM
BY MARK ENSER
Interweaving the Curriculum:
Retrieval, Spacing and
Interleaving.
Changing a culture: from doing to learning
Episodic memories were created in a
culture of doing.
These episodic memories can be
unconnected to the thing that was
meant to be learnt.
“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of
sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
Interweaving the Curriculum:
Retrieval, Spacing and
Interleaving.
Changing a culture: from doing to learning
Interweaving the Curriculum:
Retrieval, Spacing and
Interleaving.
Changing a culture: from doing to learning
Interweaving the Curriculum:
Retrieval, Spacing and
Interleaving.
Changing a culture: from doing to learning
Spacing Effects in Learning, a Temporal Ridgeline of
Optimal Retention (Cepeda et al 2008)
“If a person wishes to retain information for several
years, a delayed review of at least several months
seems likely to produce a highly favorable return on a
time investment— potentially doubling the amount
ultimately remembered, holding study time constant—
as compared to less temporally distributed study.”
Interweaving the Curriculum:
Retrieval, Spacing and
Interleaving.
Changing a culture: from doing to learning
Spacing Effects in Learning, a Temporal Ridgeline of
Optimal Retention (Cepeda et al 2008)
Credit: Damian Benney
https://mrbenney.wordpress.co
m/2016/11/03/optimal-time-for-
spacing-gaps/
Interweaving the Curriculum:
Retrieval, Spacing and
Interleaving.
Interleaving: What it is
Interweaving the Curriculum:
Retrieval, Spacing and
Interleaving.
Interleaving: What it is
Interweaving the Curriculum:
Retrieval, Spacing and
Interleaving.
Interleaving: What it is
Interweaving the Curriculum:
Retrieval, Spacing and
Interleaving.
Interleaving: What it isn’t
Monday – Tectonics
Tuesday – Urbanisation
Friday – Resource Management
Tuesday – Urbanisation
Friday – Resource Management
Interweaving the Curriculum:
Retrieval, Spacing and
Interleaving.
From Interleaving to
Interweaving
Recalling things improves
retrieval strength.
Isolated pieces of
information are harder to
recall.
We want to take our pupils
on a journey. A curriculum.
Interweaving the Curriculum:
Retrieval, Spacing and
Interleaving.
From interleaving to interweaving
Topics can become silos of information.
Experts will see the links between them
Novices won’t always see these links.
Interweaving the Curriculum:
Retrieval, Spacing and
Interleaving.
From interleaving to interweaving
Term One: Geography of Sport
Term Two: Urbanisation
Term Three: Tectonics
Term Four: Brazil
Term Five: Weather & Climate
Term Six: Geography of Disease
Interweaving the Curriculum:
Retrieval, Spacing and
Interleaving.
Interweaving the Curriculum:
Retrieval, Spacing and
Interleaving.
We need to weave together the threads of our subject to reveal
the big picture.
Interweaving the Curriculum:
Retrieval, Spacing and
Interleaving.
Step One: What is your big picture?
“We want our pupils to leave here being able to understand why
the world is the way it is; both the physical and human process
that have shaped it and continue to shape it.”
Interweaving the Curriculum:
Retrieval, Spacing and
Interleaving.
Step Two: What do pupils need to know?
“We want our pupils to leave here being able to understand why
the world is the way it is; both the physical and human process
that have shaped it and continue to shape it.”
Fundamental knowledge
Threshold concepts
Examples
Interweaving the Curriculum:
Retrieval, Spacing and
Interleaving.
Step Three: How will it be best structured?
“To understand X they first need to understand…”
Interweaving the Curriculum:
Retrieval, Spacing and
Interleaving.
Step Four: Where are the connections?
Interweaving the Curriculum:
Retrieval, Spacing and
Interleaving.
Step Five: Build it into the planning
Places referenced
Use of images
Knowledge organisers
Retrieval quizzes
Assessments
Interweaving the Curriculum:
Retrieval, Spacing and
Interleaving.
Conclusion
Retrieval, spacing and interleaving can help move us from a
culture of doing to a culture of learning.
More importantly they can be a tool for creating a rich
curriculum that weaves the big picture of our subject.
Interweaving the Curriculum:
Retrieval, Spacing and
Interleaving.
Mark Enser
@EnserMark
Teachreal.wordpress.com
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