Rob Watson is an AST in Teaching and Learning and MFL at a large Archbishop Holgate’s CE Academy in York, UK. Rob started his teaching career in Middlesbrough, before moving to Yorkshire. He’s worked as an AST for 3 years now and gets to work on variety of projects, involving school-wide CPD, outreach with primary schools, in-house staff support, and Student Voice. He’s also very interested in memory skills and language acquisition. When not confined to the classroom, Rob can be found visiting sites and cities around the UK (he likes a bit architecture – especially a cool cathedral or two) or, finance-permitting, on holiday in Germany (or somewhere else in the North of Europe…).
Pupils have to take in and retain a huge amount of information, so it’s important to make sure that their memories are up to the job. T&L and MFL lead practitioner at Archbishop Holgate's School Robert Watson gives five great techniques for this task.
Memory is an odd thing. I teach languages, and I notice how tough students can find it to remember and retain things. I know I’m not alone and that this isn’t just confined to my subject area, as I do teaching and learning work across the curriculum. So, what weird and wacky ways can help to improve students’ memory?
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