Using Tried and Tested Processes Successfully

Abstract

How many educators wonder daily if the material being
taught is actually retained for future use? Research validates that
students retain information learned when they acquire knowledge,
make meaning of that knowledge and are able to discern when to
transfer that knowledge to a new situation on their own. With the
development of the “Boomerang Strategies” for the book, A Value
Added Decision, these researchers help readers and, when applicable,
session participants improve their pedagogical practice to make learning
powerful and engaging for their students, taking them from mere
compliance to complete engagement and commitment to their own
learning processing. The research tool used has immediate application
in any educational setting, is interactive, and is enlightening as
participants construct knowledge from their own experience as learners
at any grade level and in any discipline. The most important detail is
that participants own the process and can see how what they construct
has immediate application in their own situations.