Dual coding with Zachary and Isla

This podcast discusses the vital teaching and learning strategy known as dual coding. Although the term has only been used quite recently, good teachers have used the approach for decades. Even Confucius knows the value of dual coding, though he wouldn't have called it that! I'm joined by 2 secondary school students, Zachary and Isla, who talk about their primary and secondary experiences with dual coding and how it helps them to understand new or complex ideas.

In this podcast we talk about ...

• What dual coding is.
• How it can be used in the classroom to develop better understanding of tricky concepts.
• How Jeremy learnt to use dual coding when he was an NQT playing with toy cars in a science lesson with a Year 5 class.
• Providing a summary of learning in a diagram makes an idea much easier to comprehend and avoids overloading working memory.
• If teachers only talk, especially if they talk too much, this can lead students to zone out and stop listening.
• The value of dual coding when looking back at work that has been done previously.
• How important it is to present information in different ways so that all students can access the learning.
• The need to plan the visual image if you are new to dual coding so you know what to draw as you are explaining key ideas.
• How students can use dual coding in their own recording to help them understand and recall key information.

For more information on dual coding (or anything discussed in previous podcasts), you can contact Jeremy on Twitter @whatnqt or via email on jnc.edu@gmail.com.