Explain how you will use the information processing model of memory to teach a lesson in your content area. Your response should include specific ideas for gaining and maintaining students' attention, activating prior knowledge, rehearsing information in working memory, dual-coding, and encoding to long-term memory.
Learning and using the Quadratic Equation:
Attention: Attention is attained and maintained by having engaging activities and switching the activity ever 10-15 minutes. The class starts with a fun game that refreshed solving polynomials by factoring. The activity would be one that gets them up and moving. Some of the students could be a factor. For example, one student would be (x-3), and another would be (x+2). Other students would be equations like (x^2 - x - 6). The factors would have to go find an equation they belong to and the equation would be searching for it's factors. The activity would switch into a brief explanation of how some equations can't be factored so we need to learn a new method for solving equations. I would then introduce the formula and we would learn the quadratic formula song. The song would play with the lyrics on the board.
To add some psych terms... the first activity is activating their prior knowledge after gaining the attention. We are using that knowledge of equations to move into the formula. We rehearse the song over and over to make sure the students are keeping it in working memory. We are sing the words while also looking at the equation visually. They are using both visual and speech to learn the idea. By using the catching song, it's being encoded to long-term memory. We can also repeat the song every few days to make sure it's making it to long-term memory. Tada! Beautiful lesson... er, it probably is only half a lesson.
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