Effectively Teaching and Supporting Students with Low Working Memory

All Primary, Secondary and Diverse Needs Teachers.

Research suggests that working memory is a better predictor of academic achievement than IQ so it is important that teachers identify working memory deficits, put in place support strategies and do what is possible to develop working memory.

This practical seminar will develop understanding of working memory and the impact of working memory deficits in the classroom. Participants will be familiarised with tools available for measuring working memory capacity. They will be given strategies for supporting children with weak working memory in the classroom and the opportunity to look at ways in which technology can be utilised to increase working memory skills.

Understanding childhood working memory –

Characteristics of children with weak working memory –

Tools for measuring working memory capacity –

The impact of working memory deficits in the classroom –

Supporting children with working memory deficits – strategies and resources –

Shirley Houston is an independent educational consultant with 40 years of teaching experience. She has a Masters degree in Special Education and has taught students in years K-12 at government, Catholic and Independent schools, in Australia and in America. She has lectured at several universities in Western Australia and at the Central Institute of Technology. Shirley has an enduring passion for work with children and adults who have specific learning difficulties and is a long-standing Board member of The Dyslexia- SPELD Foundation of Western Australia. She runs teacher-training, advises companies on educational product development and tutors students with diverse needs.

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