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Are first-grade students of teachers with a highly mnemonic-oriented teaching style able to remember more information than first-grade students of teachers with a low mnemonic-oriented teaching style?

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Is there a correlation between how mnemonically-oriented a first-grade teachers' teaching style is and the development of their students' memory skills?

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107 children (49 boys, 58 girls) ages 71-91 months, from 4 schools and 2 districts

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The researchers gathered information from a series of 3 tests (conducted in the fall, winter, and spring). Each test had a 3 components: digit span, object memory, and sort-recall with organizational training. Observations made of the students while taking the tests also contributed to the data.

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The researchers found that students of teachers with a high mnemonic orientation performed better on the object memory task where they were able to use their own memorization strategies.

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When teaching children, you can:
-suggest strategies that they can use to remember information
-ask them to think about some strategies that they could use
-give them instructional activities that require them to remember certain information
-ask them why they used a certain strategy to solve a certain problem

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The study did a good job of including 3 components in the memory test, to show that the memory of the students was not improving, but rather their memorization strategies.

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The study could be improved if it included a larger sample of children because 107 is a relatively small amount. The study could also be continued to second-grade, to see that if children who had a high mnemonic-oriented teacher in first grade, but a low mnemonic-oriented teacher in second-grade, maintain or lose their memory skills.

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This article helps educators keep in mind that child don't have the memory skills that we have. It is harder for them to memorize information because they have not acquired the skills needed to be able to remember lots of information. It is our duty as educators to help them develop memory strategies that they can use.

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When I work with children, I will make sure that I don't simply convey information to them, but teach it in a way that will help them remember it as well. I think that in the past I have just fed children information, but not offered any advice on how to connect it with themselves to make it interesting and memorable.

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Linking Teachers’ Memory-Relevant Language and the Development of Children’s Memory Skills

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Linking Teachers’ Memory-Relevant Language and the Development of Children’s Memory Skills

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Mnemonic devices are strategies that people use to remember information

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Coffman, J. L., Ornstein, P. A., McCall, L. E., & Curran, P. J. (2008, November). Linking Teachers' Memory-Relevant Language and the Development of Children's Memory Skills. In Developmental Psychology. Retrieved from ERIC (0012-1649).