Educational Neuroscience Blog

Marilee Sprenger currently has four different books in publication which consists of How to Teach so Students Remember, The Brain in Action, Becoming A Wiz at Brain Based Teaching, and Differentiation Through Learning Styles and Memory. Her books focus on brain based teaching and she does the best job of translating brain research into classroom practice. She is known for finding ways to retain information by putting it in the long term memory. She goes on and talks about the steps that you need to take in order for you to properly  store information in your long term memory when needed and the importance of learning the correct way to do so.
Obviously it is very important for students to figure out how to store information in their long term memory. Marilee states that if we learn how memory works and how to apply that knowledge, then we are able to help students become successful learners.The more we know and understand about the brain as teachers, the more we are able to educate our students about it. Marilee focuses on understanding the different types of memory how to access each for instruction, and how to create assessments that match. As information is being uncovered, studies have shown that the cognitive neurosciences are providing us with an unprecedented understanding of both the organization and growth of the brain.
I've found that a lot of Marilee's information will very useful to me as a teacher and for my own benefit personally as I have struggled with memory loss. A lot of her information and research is something that I will definitely use when I am teaching my own students how to retain information and place it in their long term memory. As a student I would have loved to have learned the information that she has researched in how to remember more easily. In my life and for the last year of college I will focus on her steps for long term memorization in helping me, it will benefit me greatly and I am glad that I was able to learn some of the information Marilee Sprenger has developed.