Rob Caudwell | FCCT | FRSA

@robcaudwell.bsky.social

Co-Founder of @mosaicpenrose.bsky.social #ITE #ITT #TeacherDevelopment mosaic.penrose.education

Working memory and teaching in Primary 🤔Does breaking things down into sequences work for all primary students? 🤔Can we use the same rehearsal and retrieval methods with everyone in a primary class? 🤔Can all in a primary class pay the same amount of attention? (Gathercole and Alloway)

Working memory capacity increases from childhood through to adolescence, when adult levels are reached.
Within a particular age group, there is wide variation in working memory capacity between individuals. In a classroom of seven-year-olds, some children will have the working memory capacities of the average five-year-old child, and others of an average eleven-year-old.
Children typically start to use rehearsal in verbal short-term memory at about seven years of age, and at this age also shift towards preferring to remember information in terms of verbal characteristics if possible.
Increases in working memory capacity with age relate to improvements in the efficiency of processing and of attention.

At TEAL have recently been looking at what schools typically offer in terms of maternity or family leave benefits. I am delighted that today we have officially launched a significantly enhanced package of support, which we will apply for all leave that commenced from 1 September 2024.

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