One of the most fundamental areas of development for teachers is in understanding differentiation strategies – the techniques used to help pupils make good progress, irrespective of their starting points. It’s the process through which teaching is tailored to support different pupil capabilities.
Working memory plays a critical part in the way pupils learn, but has limitations. Find ways to overcome those limitations, and you will enhance pupils’ capabilities.
Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch (1974) put forward a model of working memory as a way to better explain short-term memory. The term indicates that this type of memory is concerned with the work we do moment to moment, as opposed to long-term memory which can be conceptualised more like a store.
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