Chapter 6 Questions to Consider

What are the essential skills and/or learning outcomes you want your students to know and be able to do that relate to cognitive learning? 

I think that with elementary students and furthermore deaf students, their skills will not be quite as developed as those of say middle or high school. That being said though I do think there are certain essential skills that my kids should have. I think that learning things out in the real world and being able to relate them to the tasks in the classroom are important.(182) I think this especially of deaf students because they come from a different background sometimes. It does depend on the situation at home, but either way, whatever they bring from their background and environment can help with their learning. I also think that storage is very important for kids in my class, especially at the critical age they are.(183) When you are young you are learning so much and it is critical to learn at that age because you can retain so much. I think that if my kids can be storing the information in class, then when they go on  and get older they will be able to use it again, which brings me to another skill I think is essential. I think that retrieval of information already taught is very important.(184) If the student can learn something, retain it, and then refer back to it then I really think that captures the essence of them learning the material fully. They can also relate back to it later on in school which is great too.

How might your knowledge of the memory processes guide your instructional decisions?

I really think that now after reading and listening to the teacher project, that I will incorporate things into my classroom that kids are interested in. I think that is a great way to engage students and keep them interested. I hope that in my classroom that I can appeal to everyone's interests so that my children will all want to participate. Also another important thing about memory processing is that students store some information and use it later, retrieval  and I think that is something I need to incorporate in my class if I am working with students. They need to be taught material in a way that they will remember and be able to retrieve later so I hope that I can teach my students effectively.