Have you ever had a day when you’ve thought: “Why on earth am I studying this?”, perhaps “Why not give up now?”, or even simply “I don’t know how to start” … Everyone has days like these. And that’s OK, it happens. The...
Interleaving / interleaved practice is a powerful teaching & learning tool to build mastery of problems or skills faster. It’s one of the core skills I recommend when giving talks or coaching clients. Here’s how to do it effectively: Our mission is to...
Retrieval practice is, in my view, the single most powerful tool to build lasting knowledge in teaching and learning (I rate spaced learning as a close second). A curious peculiarity of our memory is that things are impressed better by active than by passive...
Goal setting. It’s one of those tasks that’s easy to procrastinate on: it can be difficult to really confront what you want out of life. But, if you can summon the courage to sit down and get thinking, then goal settting can build your study motivation...
For most of us, our memories have their limits! Chunking helps you overcome the natural limitations of your memory, and is therefore a very powerful trick for helping you to learn information and get it into memory. I’m sharing a wealth of “trade...
