This week I am joined by Amarbeer Singh Gill. Singh is a lead practitioner of secondary maths and a teacher educator. He blogs at unpackingeducation.wixsite.com and you can find him on twitter @InspiredLearn_

Recently, Singh wrote a brilliant book as part of the In Action series, 'Dunlosky's Strengthening the Student Toolbox in Action' and we discuss the contents in todays episode. Dunlosky's research focussed on study strategies that are regularly employed by our students during their independent study and he ranked them from most to least effective.

In this episode we discuss the following and so much more:

How Dunlosky's paper impacted on Singh's classroom practice

What we need to know and understand about Dunlosky's research

The strategies that are most effective including practice testing and distributed practice otherwise known as retrieval practice and spacing

The strategies that are least effective including highlighting and re-reading

What we should be teaching our students to do during independent study

This is an enriching conversation Singh and I got so much out of it. Especially, the words of caution that Singh provides near the end.

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