Reducing cognitive load

Reducing cognitive load

Have you ever tried to remember a shopping list? Then you will have experienced cognitive load.   If you can remember three or four items, that’s not bad. Maybe you can remember eight or nine if you’re good at it. You might repeat the the items to yourself as...
Supporting learners with dyspraxia

Supporting learners with dyspraxia

  We are trying harder than you can imagine,’ says dyspraxic teacher Kerry Pace (2015). She suggests that we – non-dyspraxics – might think about how we feel when we’re exhausted: the things we drop or spill or bump into, the overwhelming magnitude of a huge task...