Jun 28, 2023

This week Karen Duffy and the Psychology PGCE students of Manchester Metropolitan University have taken over the podcast.  Take a listen to this lively conversation about the dreams, fears and expectations of teachers just entering the profession.  A reminder too, for those of us who have been here a while, about the...

Jun 20, 2023

What a year this has been, as I upload this podcast I currently have 145 episodes of Psychology in the Classroom for you to listen to.  But there are still more to come but this is the last solo episode of the year so I thought I would take the chance to reflect on the year gone and look forward to the year ahead.  As I...

Jun 13, 2023

This podcast reviews a paper with the title ‘Teacher, forgive me, I forgot to do it’ the impact of children’s prospective memory on teachers’ evaluation of academic performance.  Prospective memory is, according to Einstein and McDaniel the memory for intentions. It enables us to remember to carry out an action...

Jun 6, 2023

The Note Taking Effect is the well documented effect that taking notes during learning increases retention and recall.  There are factors that effect it such as whether you type or hand write - the latter is more effective - for example.  This episode looks at research into the underlying cognitive processes that...