Using Tried and Tested Processes Successfully

Abstract

How many educators wonder daily if the material being taught is actually retained for future use?  Research validates that students retain information learned when they acquire knowledge, make meaning of that knowledge and are able to discern when to transfer that knowledge to a new situation on their own.  With the development of the “Boomerang Strategies†for the book, A Value Added Decision, these researchers help readers and, when applicable, session participants improve their pedagogical practice to make learning powerful and engaging for their students, taking them from mere compliance to complete engagement and commitment to their own learning processing.  The research tool used has immediate application in any educational setting, is interactive, and is enlightening as participants construct knowledge from their own experience as learners at any grade level and in any discipline.  The most important detail is that participants own the process and can see how what they construct has immediate application in their own situations.