Bruce Wilkinson 7 Laws of the Learner: Law 4a_Retention
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The Law of
Retention
Pages 203-233
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The essence of the Law of
Retention is in these threewords:
master the minimum.The teacher should enable all
students to enjoy maximummastery of the irreducible
minimum
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Most teachers teach at too slow a rate.
How can teachers increase their teaching rate?Wilkinson goes back to the flood and suggests thatwhen God wanted us to remember something he useda picture - a rainbow. And there are other methodsGod uses which we will learn.
This is not for every time you teach - only when youhave to teach facts or chunks of content.
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Retention Mindset
This law looks at how to teach the student the mostinformation in the shortest amount of time with theleast effort (for the students that is) and for the
greatest retention. It deals with two primary issues ofthe teaching-learning relationship.
Effectiveness - is the teacher teaching the rightmaterial?
Efficiency- is the teacher teaching in the right
manner?
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Deut 6:4-94 Hear, O Israel: The LORD ourGod, the LORD is one. 5 Love the LORD your
God with all your heart and with all your souland with all your strength. 6 Thesecommandments that I give you today are to be
on your hearts. 7Impress them on yourchildren. Talk about them when you sit athome and when you walk along the road,
when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tiethem as symbols on your hands and bind themon your foreheads. 9 Write them on the
doorframes of your houses and on your gates.Thursday 4 November 2010
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Do you want to be a greatteacher - firstly then, love God,this has a domino effect ontoother things. Secondly, the wordsGod speaks need to be in ourhearts - the subject is in us.
Then you are ready to get it into
your students hearts - and thetext tells us 4 ways to do that:
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1. Teach - formal school-typeteaching
2. Talking - this is fluid, casual two-way - this opens up difficulties etc.
3. Personal reminder -
nonverbal, maybe something you
wear, a sign which acts asrepresentation, a token, bowing yourhead, fish symbol...
4. Public recognition - thedoorframe of your house, somethingpublic, sign...
The most effective teachers use all 4
of these teaching levelsThursday 4 November 2010
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Retention Model
Teach (formal) Information
Talk (infomral) Incarnation
Personal Reminder Impress
Public Reminder Influence
Student
Love God
WordsIn Heart
Teacher
Love God(Who he is)
Words
In Heart(what he
said)
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There is a progression in the 4 approaches - movingfrom interior to exterior of your life, from formal toless formal.
Teach and talk are the tutor level - direct and verbal.
Personal and public reminders are testimony - indirectand nonverbal.
The clear teaching of the Bible is that we are to pass it
on in such a way that children, students etc. come toknow and love the truth too
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Retention Maxims
The law of retention presentsrevolutionary principles and
methods to speed teachfacts. When applied itachieves amazing results forthose who bravely move
beyond the way it has alwaysbeen done - to boldly go...
Here are the 7 principles:
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Maxim 1: retention of facts by thestudent is the teachers responsibility
Teachers have to accept theirresponsibility to cause the studentto learn - not to dump material
on them. It is not enough that astudent copies down the materialyou give and try to learn it later.
The teacher has to give 100% - andso does the student! Studentsuccess is the ultimate measure ofyour teaching ability.
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Maxim 2: retention of facts is effective
only after they are understood
It is not enough to present thematerial just because it isrequired - it needs to beunderstood.
Is it right a student hires aprivate tutor to help themunderstand?
Students retain moreinformation if they understand it- teachers are not the deliveryboy, they must help with
understanding.Thursday 4 November 2010
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Maxim 2: retention of facts is effective
only after they are understood
It is not enough to present thematerial just because it isrequired - it needs to beunderstood.
Is it right a student hires aprivate tutor to help themunderstand?
Students retain moreinformation if they understand it- teachers are not the deliveryboy, they must help with
understanding.
Understandingmust always
precedememorisation
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Maxim 3: retention increases as thestudent recognises the contents relevance
Learning goes down if the studentdoesnt think the material has any
relevance.Irrelevance (lack of relevance)produces apathy and frustration
Relevance develops motivation andconcentration - this is then focussedthrough good delivery and content.
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The essence of the Law of
Retention is in these threewords:
master the minimum.The teacher should enable all
students to enjoy maximummastery of the irreducible
minimum
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Maxim 4: retention requires the teacher tofocus on the facts that are most important
Not all facts are created equal.
If you teach for memorisation youhave to take responsibility for
saying which part is mostimportant. Sift the information forthem.
Wilkinson suggests that God doesthis in the Bible, heavy contentcovering some events and othersare simply skipped over.
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The more important a fact - the more attention (time)it should get.
In business this is reflected in the Pareto Principle: The
80:20 principle
80% of a companies profits usually come from about20% of its products.
80% of a companies business comes from 20% of itsclients
20% of people in a church give 80% of the money
80% of your effort produces 20% of your resultsThursday 4 November 2010
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In a class 20% of your contentcarries 80% of the real benefit to
the student. Identify that and changepriorities to reflect it.
If 80% of your time is spent on 20%of what you desire to see achieved -
what a waste!
Teachers should identify the factsrequired by a student in order toknow the subject. This is calledthe Irreducible Minimum and shouldbe understood and mastered by allstudents - it would then guarantee
all students success.Thursday 4 November 2010
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In a class 20% of your contentcarries 80% of the real benefit to
the student. Identify that and changepriorities to reflect it.
If 80% of your time is spent on 20%of what you desire to see achieved -
what a waste!
Teachers should identify the factsrequired by a student in order toknow the subject. This is calledthe Irreducible Minimum and shouldbe understood and mastered by allstudents - it would then guarantee
all students success.Thursday 4 November 2010
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In a class 20% of your contentcarries 80% of the real benefit to
the student. Identify that and changepriorities to reflect it.
If 80% of your time is spent on 20%of what you desire to see achieved -
what a waste!
Teachers should identify the factsrequired by a student in order toknow the subject. This is calledthe Irreducible Minimum and shouldbe understood and mastered by allstudents - it would then guarantee
all students success.
The average
student panicsbefore a test
worried about
what a teachermight ask - and the
teacher acts as ifmaking the studentguess is important.
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Maxim 5: retention arranges thefacts so they are easy to memorise
Do you give your students a bigsack full of information and expect
them to sort through it forthemselves?
What you need to do is effectively
download all the data from you tothe student without any loss ofdata.
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You cant just place a book on a students head and saymemorise and it is done. The material needs to beformatted for the mind to retain it.
In fact God created our minds with just a few ways toreceive and retain information easily. In the next sectionwe shall learn 7 primary ways to reformat material.
Teachers need to make material easier to memorise -
so they remove the problems and prepare the way forthe students.
Teachers make learning the information as efficient and
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Which is better for a
student?Give them eggs, flour, butteretc. and tell them to make itfor themselves?
Give them the cake and tellthem to enjoy eating it?
Both have the same
ingredients - but which willbe enjoyed and digestedmore readily?
Why do we act as if
making learning difficultis to be admired?
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Which is better for a
student?Give them eggs, flour, butteretc. and tell them to make itfor themselves?
Give them the cake and tellthem to enjoy eating it?
Both have the same
ingredients - but which willbe enjoyed and digestedmore readily?
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Maxim 6: retention strengthens longterm memory through regular review
God made us with short term andlong term memory capabilities.
What sort of things do you use
short term memory for?Cramming the night before an examretains info for a short while - but
what if the exam is postponed
for a week?
Material needs to be in long termmemory for students to reallyknow it.
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Most students do not knowmaterial a month after they study it.
Wilkinson suggests the only way toget info into long term memory isto review it. Review and review the
material with the students until theyget it - this then places it in longterm memory.
Covering the material only gets it
into short term memory.
You have to get the core materialinto the LTM of all students.
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Maxim 7: retention minimises time formemorisation to maximise time for
application
Whilst it is good to be ableto teach more in less time
- the ideal is to be able toapply that material into thelife of the students - howthey use it.
If content is of no use whyteach it?
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Format content for ease of
understanding and memorisation -then apply it, show how valuable anduseful it is. The more relevantmaterial is the more motivated
students will be to learn it.
The law of retention strives to helpteachers to teach more in less time
- to be more effective in teachingcontent. This then leaves more timefor application.
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The essence of the Law of
Retention is in these threewords:
master the minimum.The teacher should enable all
students to enjoy maximummastery of the irreducible
minimum
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Discussion Questions
1. Many teachers tell students oftheir poor study habits and lack ofcompetence. Yet a teacher causesstudents to learn.
Shouldnt the teacher be the onebeing corrected?
2. If you have to cram the night
before an exam have you been trulytaught?
3. Is it wrong for a student to ask,Do we really need to know this?
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