Psychology Hacks to Become a Better Teacher (or Student!)

If you are a teacher who is trying to make new lesson plans, or a student trying to learn more, we have some psychology hacks for you!

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[Woottfenfam]

I am a teacher, and the spacing effect needs to be more emphasized everywhere. Thanks for mentioning it.

[katiechambers]

A student teacher here! You beautifully condensed a full semester class into 14 minutes. I’ll be sure to try these in my classes that I’m student teaching with! :D

[matthewharris-levesque]

Remind me to watch this video again in three or four days.

[tiffyw]

I'm surprised this video wasn't sponsored by Brilliant or Skillshare. Quizzes, quizzes everywhere.

[The_Reductionist]

My final year project at uni was about optimal learning techniques. I read more than 50 studies (Dunlosky et al. 2013 was the most informative overall) and wrote a 10k word report on it. Felt so excited to immediately understand everything in this video.

[starspawn]

hank: "don't cram"

me: _already planning out my cramming for the next few tests_ "yeah but that's just a suggestion right"

[noiJadisCailleach]

I can still remember all the things we learned in classes where there were activities to discover the answer to a problem by yourself.
Around 15 years ago.
This checks out!

[reginabedgood]

*watches this while procrastinating studying for the organic chem exam I have in 3 days...*

[bookXbat]

Wow didnt expect this to validate my study methods. Which literally consists of me just testing myself over and over until I remember it again. Yay quizlet and proprofs xD

[gabby]

Thanks! I'm in teacher training for primary school and I love to know about the science background of it.
Also, thank you that you always emphasize on how important this job is. I feel like it usually isn't considered how much teachers shape society

[___iambi]

In college I literally ONLY studied woth practice tests and I would highly recommend it. To study for each test get ahold of as many practice tests as possible (optimally 3). Then
Make a cheat sheet
Take the timed practice test.
Grade it and find out why the right answers were right
Repeat (including making a completely new cheat sheet)

If you start evening out on a grade because of mostly dumb mistakes then just remember how many you tend to make and on the actual test double check for that many dumb mistakes. And if you can't remember a concept, (even if you dont have access to the cheat sheet) try and remember where you put it first and then what it was.

[oucyan]

all this video tells me is:
1. to marathon all sci-show videos at least once month to retain the factoids better
2. not reading the manual is a good thing

[gravijta]

Thanks for this video. I've been trying to teach my chickens to look both ways before crossing the road. :)

[jacobkhu-oldacc.]

As a teacher myself, what I can say about being a teacher is that it really isn't easy as it seems. Thanks for the tips!

[MuhammadHassanHTechreviews]

I can confirm that this definitely works. Our physics professor used to have "feedback sessions" every day where he asked questions related to the material we had studied the day prior. And we kept coming back to our older concepts throughout the year. I retained a lot of information and didn't have to study as much for my finals because of that.

[d_dave]

As a person who's deep in the Education literature, I loved this video. It's a summary of a lot of the stuff I talk about and have tried to implement.

One important detail you missed out though: Learning styles *are* indeed ineffective, however multi-modal learning is well-supported by the literature. So teachers who use the ideas of learning styles, actually accidentally end up improving their outcomes. (Provided they aren't actually splitting kids up by learning style.)

[ValiantVicuna]

Just took my "last" CPA exam (won't get scores back until next month), and I can confirm that consistent testing/quizzing definitely was more effective than studying for hours every day. On test day, it was so easy to recall all of the information because it was just like another day of quizzing. I was only stressed in the sense that I was very alert. Not nearly as stressed as I had been on the exams that I had studied traditionally.

[wendlingk]

My online school embeds formative quizzes into the course content and they always really help me remember what I just read. Retrieval practice at it’s best

[mboeddy]

Thanks, I took notes on this to share with my co-workers at the English Kindergarten in which I work here in Finland.

[Ruby]

Thank you Hank! Your programs are awesome!