Powerful Teaching: 4 Research-Based Strategies That Help Learning Stick

#255: Some of the study strategies your students rely on most- rereading notes, highlighting, cramming the night before- actually give them a false sense of learning.

In this episode, I'm breaking down four research-based strategies from the book Powerful Teaching by Pooja Agarwal and Patrice Bain that help learning actually stick, not just look like it stuck in the moment.

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In this episode:

The difference between encoding, storage, and retrieval, and why familiarity can fake you out into thinking students have learned something

Power Tool #1: Retrieval Practice, low-stakes ways to get students pulling information from memory instead of just rereading it

Power Tool #2: Spacing, why cramming works short-term and fails long-term, and simple ways to bring old learning back

Power Tool #3: Interleaving, mixing related concepts so students have to decide which strategy applies instead of following a pattern

Power Tool #4: Feedback-Driven Metacognition, helping students get honest about what they actually know versus what just feels familiar

A one-move classroom challenge you can try tomorrow, no new app, no prep

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