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Brain-Based Teaching Techniques to Increase Retention, Application, and Transfer

How do students retain what they learn and apply it at high levels? Achieving sticky learning—learning that lasts for the long term—doesn’t have to be complicated! In Stick the Learning: Brain-Based Teaching Techniques to Increase Retention, Application, and Transfer, author Eric Saunders introduces three research-backed techniques that help students remember information and transfer it to new contexts: (1) spaced repetition, (2) interleaving, and (3) retrieval (SIR). Through these effective and efficient SIR techniques, teachers ensure the knowledge they impart endures long into students’ future. K–12 teachers will: • Learn about the brain-based SIR techniques • Access activities to implement the SIR techniques in the classroom • Understand the importance of utilizing repetition and interleaving alongside retrieval • Increase student achievement in the classroom • Take short quizzes to assess their own growth and utilization of the SIR techniques

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“A superb overview of the latest insights in learning, beautifully informed by neuroscience. Highly recommended!”

—Barbara Oakley

Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Oakland University; author, A Mind for Numbers

“Today’s teachers have access to a wealth of teaching and learning strategies. Eric Saunders infuses one of those pedagogical approaches— direct instruction—with brain-based research and teaching techniques to clarify and improve engagement with students. Teachers will find support and understanding from Saunders’s new take on a traditional teaching style.”

—Richard E. Ferdig

Summit Professor of Learning Technologies, Research Center for Educational Technology, Kent State University

“A helpful guide featuring researchbased practices for teachers, instructional coaches, and specialists!”

—Lety Amalla

Executive Director of Student Programs, Midland Independent School District, Texas