Intentional teachers understand how learning takes place and planfully use effective strategies to help children learn and remember important knowledge and skills.

Intentional teachers understand how learning takes place and planfully use effective strategies to help children learn and remember important knowledge and skills. They help students understand their own learning processes so they can learn more effectively. They understand how the limited capacity of working memory implies that students should not be bombarded with too much content at once and that students need time to process new concepts and skills. They use motivational strategies to encourage students to devote mental energy to learning. They teach to enhance long-term memory by teaching learning strategies and engaging students in active learning. They use methods to diminish mental interference, such as avoiding teaching easily confused topics simultaneously. They use methods to enhance facilitation by pointing out commonalities between previously learned concepts and new ones. They provide extensive practice to help students gain automaticity in basic skills. They teach students effective study strategies and give them many opportunities to use them. They organize information to help students access new concepts. In the following video, Marce Kersten teaches a high school sociology lesson about the stages of life. Her teaching exemplifies the use of several effective strategies to help students learn and remember important knowledge.

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Question 2: How do Ms. Kersten's strategies of brainstorming and working in pairs show that she understands the need to enhance long-term memory? First, describe her instructional strategy, and then explain two ways in which the strategies affect long-term memory.

Question 3: Why is the exit activity important in light of our knowledge of brain function and learning?

Question 4:What strategies used by Ms. Kersten are likely to motivate or encourage her students to devote mental energy to learning? Explain your answer.