Information Processing TIPR

1)  The teacher used Chunking and Duel-Coding to help teach students about organic molecules.  While she taught them about hydrocarbons she also drew visuals on the board, engaging their Visuospatial sketchpad and their audio processor.  She also gave each table a Chemistry model packet, so they could both see and touch the material (which also acted as a Stimulus-Driven Attention grabber).  

She also clumped organic molecules together based on their functional group.  This allowed students to organize info based on their similarities and make it easier to see what made them different.  

She always provided enough wait time so that the lesson didn't feel rushed.  I also think the wait time made students comfortable enough to ask for clarification if they didn't understand.  

2)  This lesson was mostly lecture, and there weren't that many activities aside from the model packets.  From the low student precipitation, I think the students needed more rehearsal in order to encode the information.  I think elaboration rehearsal and Mnemonics would have helped students encode the information better.  Mostly I think they need some sort of activity to practice rehearsal.

3)  I plan on having activities that follow up what I teach.  These activities would be short, and the students would do them on their own.  I hope this would give them wait time to do maintenance rehearse and encode some of the information on their own.  I would later have them practice elaboration rehearsal as a class to better encode the info.