Working Memory and Learning

A Practical Guide for Teachers
Susan Gathercole
Tracy Packiam Alloway
Working Memory and Learning
January 2008 | 144 pages | Sage UK
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Description

A good working memory is crucial to becoming a successful leaner, yet there is very little material available in an easy-to-use format that explains the concept and offers practitioners ways to support children with poor working memory in the classroom.

This book provides a coherent overview of the role played by working memory in learning during the school years, and uses theory to inform good practice.

Topics covered include:

" the link between working memory skills and key areas of learning (such as literacy & numeracy)

" the relationship between working memory and children with developmental disorders

" assessment of children for working memory deficits

" strategies for supporting working memory in under-performing children

This accessible guide will help SENCOs, teachers, teaching assistants, speech and language therapists and educational psychologists to understand and address working memory in their setting

Contents

What Is Working Memory?

What Is Working Memory?

Working Memory in Childhood

Working Memory in Childhood

Working Memory and Learning

Working Memory and Learning

Children with Working Memory Impairments

Children with Working Memory Impairments

Children with Short-Term Memory Impairments

Children with Short-Term Memory Impairments

Working Memory in Children with Developmental Disorders

Working Memory in Children with Developmental Disorders

Assessing Working Memory

Assessing Working Memory

Supporting Learning in Memory-Impaired Children

Supporting Learning in Memory-Impaired Children

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Description

A good working memory is crucial to becoming a successful leaner, yet there is very little material available in an easy-to-use format that explains the concept and offers practitioners ways to support children with poor working memory in the classroom.

This book provides a coherent overview of the role played by working memory in learning during the school years, and uses theory to inform good practice.

Topics covered include:

" the link between working memory skills and key areas of learning (such as literacy & numeracy)

" the relationship between working memory and children with developmental disorders

" assessment of children for working memory deficits

" strategies for supporting working memory in under-performing children

This accessible guide will help SENCOs, teachers, teaching assistants, speech and language therapists and educational psychologists to understand and address working memory in their setting

Contents

What Is Working Memory?

What Is Working Memory?

Working Memory in Childhood

Working Memory in Childhood

Working Memory and Learning

Working Memory and Learning

Children with Working Memory Impairments

Children with Working Memory Impairments

Children with Short-Term Memory Impairments

Children with Short-Term Memory Impairments

Working Memory in Children with Developmental Disorders

Working Memory in Children with Developmental Disorders

Assessing Working Memory

Assessing Working Memory

Supporting Learning in Memory-Impaired Children

Supporting Learning in Memory-Impaired Children

Additional materials

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Working Memory and Learning

A Practical Guide for Teachers

Susan Gathercole , Tracy Packiam Alloway
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January 2008 | 144 pages | Sage UK

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A good working memory is crucial to becoming a successful leaner, yet there is very little material available in an easy-to-use format that explains the concept and offers practitioners ways to support children with poor working memory in the classroom.

This book provides a coherent overview of the role played by working memory in learning during the school years, and uses theory to inform good practice.

Topics covered include:

" the link between working memory skills and key areas of learning (such as literacy & numeracy)

" the relationship between working memory and children with developmental disorders

" assessment of children for working memory deficits

" strategies for supporting working memory in under-performing children

This accessible guide will help SENCOs, teachers, teaching assistants, speech and language therapists and educational psychologists to understand and address working memory in their setting


Table Of Contents:

  • What Is Working Memory?
  • Working Memory in Childhood
  • Working Memory and Learning
  • Children with Working Memory Impairments
  • Children with Short-Term Memory Impairments
  • Working Memory in Children with Developmental Disorders
  • Assessing Working Memory
  • Supporting Learning in Memory-Impaired Children

Recent Product Reviews:

'The authors have written a guide for practitioners that is both highly practical, and yet based upon sound theoretical principles….This book achieves a successful, yet often elusive, link between theory, research and practice, and deserves to have a high readership. I will have no hesitation in recommending it to a range of readers' - Jane Mott, Support for Learning 'This book fulfils its aim to explain working memory and the limits it places on children's classroom learning. For teachers it gives a very clear guide and fills a gap in understanding that can only lead to more child-centred approaches to teaching and learning' - Lynn Ambler, Support for Learning

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