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SCCTM PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SESSIONS NOVEMBER 16 - 17, 2023

Friday Session F97 11:50- 12:40 201

The Unconventional Use of Spiral Review to Build
Working Memory, Analyzation Skills, and Higher Order

Thinking Skills for Struggling Learners.

This presentation will encompass the unconventional use of spiral review to help struggling
students. Instead of having spiral review be a separate entity from the teaching of the current
concept, it will be simultaneously implemented. From my experience teaching, I have come to
observe that many students don't have a lot of opportunities to practice drilling the basic skills
necessary to succeed with retention and applying the basic skills for conceptual
understanding. Participants will be able to experience this unconventional spiral review
process through mathematical examples at various levels. This way of implementing spiral
review will help build analyzation skills for students, especially struggling students. Students
need to become better analyzers in order to be able to increase reasoning and predicting skills.
Working memory is an area of weakness for many students. Students have trouble
experiencing success many times when having to apply multiple steps in a process to solve or
work a problem. This unconventional way of implementing spiral review will help with retention
as well as mastery of the minimum basics of the concept. I believe that the ability to build
higher-order thinking skills through this process will be the most valuable asset from this
presentation. Participants will be able to experience first-hand how this process of spiral
review will cause students to become stronger cognitively and will be able to understand and
apply the basics of math concepts and give explanations from the various ways the concept
can be presented. This presentation will give participants a new way of thinking about spiral
review as well as a different way to implement it more immediately rather than waiting days,
weeks, or months later. This will help increase retention of knowledge into long term memory
and which to be used in students' working memory.

Interest Level: Prek - Grade 12, Higher Education, Coaches, Leaders, Teacher Educators, Preservice
Teachers

Gilbert Burgess

G'Burgess Educational Consulting, LLC

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