In this episode, 7th-grade World Studies teacher Brett Benson will share how thinking about CLT has changed his planning process and instruction. He will share ways that he helps to lighten cognitive load for students while still making them think deeply about a topic. He will share lots of strategies he uses in his own classroom every day for retrieval and questioning.

Show Notes:

• SOL in the Wild-Brett’s Substack (a wealth of blogs) (highly recommend his entire Substack)
• Small Steps: The Rosenshine Principle that Unlocks the Other Nine (blog)
• From What to How: How Cognitive Science Transformed my Lesson Plans (blog by SOL in the Wild)
• Why Students Don’t Like School-Daniel Willingham
• In Action Series
• Cognitive Load Theory in Action
• Rosenshine’s Principles in Action
• Assimilation Theory in Action
• Retrieval Practice: Research and Practice-Kate Jones
• How Learning Happens-Paul Kirschner & Carl Hendrick
• Powerful Teaching-Patrice Bain & Pooja Argwal

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