In many classroom learning activities , considerable burdens are placed on a student’s working memory, whether related to Mathematics, Reading, Written Language, Science or Social Studies. Activities which require the student to hold in their brain some information{ a sentence to be written down} while spelling the individual words in the sentence are the kinds of classroom learning activities on which children with poor working memory struggle with the most. As a result, many students with poor working memory fail to complete their assignments properly because they have lost the crucial information needed to guide their actions.
Working memory failures can manifest themselves in frequent errors like;-incomplete recall, failing to follow instructions or forgetting the content of an instruction or only remembering a part of the sequence, short unorganized written output, place-keeping errors and task abandonment where the child gives up on the assignment completely.
In order to avoid working memory related failures, educators need to be aware of the cognitive processing demands on working memory loads, then decrease the working memory loads in a variety of structured classroom learning activities.
Working memory failures can manifest themselves in frequent errors like;-incomplete recall, failing to follow instructions or forgetting the content of an instruction or only remembering a part of the sequence, short unorganized written output, place-keeping errors and task abandonment where the child gives up on the assignment completely.
In order to avoid working memory related failures, educators need to be aware of the cognitive processing demands on working memory loads, then decrease the working memory loads in a variety of structured classroom learning activities.
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