Memory and Learning. What teachers can do to support students who have deficits in working memory.
LONG TERM RETRIEVAL DEFICITS: While a student might learn information adequately, they may nonetheless demonstrate difficulty retrieving it for use in future situations. Long term retrieval difficulties vary from each individual & depend on how the different types of information are presented. When a student experiences difficulty with retrieval of learned information, there are many things classroom teachers can try to support that student. Accommodations : Limit the amount of information to be learned during an instructional session, giving the student fewer concepts or skills to retain at anyone time. Examples might be limiting the number of spelling words to learn for the week or number of definitions to memorize. Provide a cheat sheets for the student to reference in order to compensate for memory deficits. These might be taped to the students desk and should also be available at home. Allow the student to use a calculator during math computation in order to...
