In this paper I will focus on the condition of modeling, retention, and the information processing theory, long-term memory. Long-term memory is the part of your brain that can remember information for long periods of time. Long-term memory can be accessed through many things such as retrieval or recalls of little bits of information that are stored long-term. Knowing about how long-term memory works allows us to help students retain information better because it shows us the reality that practice does not always make perfect. Retention is remembering what you have seen; it is what most teachers hope their students do. The reality behind retention is that students need to relate subjects and such to their everyday lives and need to actually use the information to retain it and store it in long-term memory. Due to the fact that we understand how long-term memory works making projects and activities for students to help them retain the information that was presented to them should be easier.
One can influence the other with a student model. Students can relate to each other more than a teacher therefore take student A (a student everyone likes) and make her a model for the classroom. Have student A take what she is learning in math; such as addition and subtraction and have them present a presentation to the classroom connecting addition and subtraction to their life. For example, she could show this by using money. She could give an example of how much money they have and what they want to buy at the school store, then show how you would subtract to get the amount of money you would have left. We know one way to retain information and store it in long-term memory is to connect it to their lives. When student A connects addition and subtraction into something that she is doing in real life they can relate to the information back to when they learned about money in math class. By using a student instead of just the teacher it allows the student to relate to the...