Teaching practice
How to make learning stick over weeks and terms, not just the lesson. I've gathered classroom videos, podcast episodes and guides on retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving and daily review. Most show how to build them into the first minutes of a lesson.
Practices in this area:Daily reviewRetrieval practiceSpacingInterleavingCumulative review
Lesson with commentary
AERO · 13:00 · Year 2 · Australia
How evidence-based practices fit into a fast-paced daily review routine, with a literacy focus.
FreeOpens at edresearch.edu.au
Lesson footage
Research Schools Network · UK
Making the most of daily routines to build mathematical thinking in a Reception class.
FreeOpens at researchschool.org.uk
Lesson with commentary
Teach Like a Champion (Doug Lemov) · Primary · 2024 · UK
The opening of a primary maths lesson at Rivers Primary Academy in Walsall, where retrieval questions and well-run response routines get every student recalling earlier content.
FreeOpens at teachlikeachampion.org
Lesson with commentary
Chalk Dust · F-2 · Australia
Principal Manisha Gazula analyses phonics lessons from Marsden Road Public School with the hosts, covering decoding, meaning and pacing, and the consistency and coaching behind the school's approach.
FreeOpens at youtube.com
Lesson footage
Research Schools Network · UK
Retrieval practice in maths that balances challenge with chances to succeed.
FreeOpens at researchschool.org.uk
Lesson with commentary
AERO · F-10 · Australia
Teachers in primary and secondary classrooms show how they revisit and review.
FreeOpens at edresearch.edu.au
Lesson with commentary
Teach Like a Champion (Doug Lemov) · Secondary · 2025 · UK
A short clip of retrieval practice in a secondary English classroom in Halesowen, England, with a brief commentary linking what the teacher does to the science of remembering.
FreeOpens at teachlikeachampion.org
Lesson footage
Research Schools Network · Year 3 · UK
Retrieval practice for younger pupils in Year 3 science, using cues and questioning.
FreeOpens at researchschool.org.uk
Lesson footage
Impact Curriculum (formerly Ochre Education) · 3:07 · Primary · Australia
A classroom demonstration of daily review in primary mathematics, from Ochre Education (now Impact Curriculum). Useful for seeing the routine in action.
FreeOpens at youtube.com
Lesson with commentary
AERO · F-10 · Australia
Teachers in primary and secondary classrooms show how they vary practice.
FreeOpens at edresearch.edu.au
Lesson with commentary
Teach Like a Champion (Doug Lemov) · Year 6 · 2021 · USA
Footage of a sixth grade history teacher in Newark running retrieval practice, with discussion of how the questions are designed to build lasting knowledge of the subject.
FreeOpens at teachlikeachampion.org
Lesson footage
Research Schools Network · Primary · UK
Visual representations used to help pupils retrieve concepts in primary maths.
FreeOpens at researchschool.org.uk
Lesson with commentary
Chalk Dust · Middle years · Australia
STEM educator Amber Haven shares a middle years lesson on neutral buoyancy, showing how retrieval practice, mini whiteboards and clear behaviour routines keep hands-on work focused on thinking.
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Lesson with commentary
AERO · Secondary · Australia
An AERO school example video on spacing and retrieval at Alfred Deakin High School. One of several AERO videos filmed in Australian schools.
FreeOpens at edresearch.edu.au
Lesson with commentary
Teach Like a Champion (Doug Lemov) · Year 6 · 2023 · USA
A sixth grade English class in the Bronx begins with retrieval practice on the novel Wonder. The commentary picks out small moves that keep it warm and rigorous.
FreeOpens at teachlikeachampion.org
Lesson footage
Research Schools Network · UK
A short clip of retrieval practice that goes beyond simple recall, with reflection questions on linking new learning to prior learning and when to add or remove scaffolds.
FreeOpens at researchschool.org.uk
Explainer
Evidence Based Education · Five short animations · UK
Five short animations on memory, dual coding, retrieval practice, deliberate practice, and spacing and interleaving. Easy to drop into a staff meeting.
FreeOpens at evidencebased.education
Webinar
Think Forward Educators, with Carl Hendrick · About 1 hour · 2025 · UK
Carl Hendrick explains how to tell real understanding from recognition, covering retrieval practice, diagnostic questions and using misconceptions to make student thinking visible.
FreeOpens at thinkforwardeducators.org
Webinar
Think Forward Educators, with Toni Hatten-Roberts, David Morkunas and Ollie Lovell · 30 to 60 minutes · 2024 · Australia
Toni Hatten-Roberts, David Morkunas and Ollie Lovell cover instructional routines, cognitive load and systematic review in primary maths, with practical strategies teachers can try straight away.
Free account neededOpens at thinkforwardeducators.org
Webinar
Think Forward Educators, with Peter Sherwin · 30 to 60 minutes · 2024 · Australia
Maths teacher Peter Sherwin draws on Bjork's desirable difficulties to describe effective teaching techniques and study habits that feel uncomfortable or counter-intuitive, and how to build them into lessons.
Free account neededOpens at thinkforwardeducators.org
Interview
Teachers Talk Radio, with Jamie Clark and Peter Sherwin · 2024 · UK
Maths teacher Peter Sherwin joins Jamie Clark to unpack Bjork and Bjork's desirable difficulties and how to design lessons that make learning stick.
FreeOpens at youtube.com
How memory works
Chalk & Talk · with Hector Ruiz Martin
Héctor Ruiz Martín explains what memory research says about why students forget, why transfer is difficult, and the roles of prior knowledge and retrieval.
FreeOpens at chalkandtalkpodcast.podbean.com
Daily review
Education Research Reading Room · with Adam Boxer
Chemistry teacher Adam Boxer talks through how he runs the opening ten minutes of a lesson, a practical listen for anyone tightening lesson starts and routines.
FreeOpens at ollielovell.com
Retrieval practice
Knowledge for Teachers · with Kate Jones
Kate Jones explains what retrieval practice looks like in the classroom, shares strategies for making it a habit and clears up common misunderstandings.
FreeOpens at knowledgeforteachers.podbean.com
Alex Quigley, Rachael Cattrall and guests discuss how retrieval practice has evolved and how cognitive science principles are being applied in classrooms.
FreeOpens at evidenceintoaction.podbean.com
Daily review
The Structured Literacy Podcast · with Jocelyn Seamer
Jocelyn Seamer explains how short curriculum organisers clarify what to teach and help students know what to focus on during retrieval and review.
FreeOpens at buzzsprout.com
Retrieval practice
Education Research Reading Room · with Kristian Still
Kristian Still discusses his book Test-Enhanced Learning, bringing together retrieval, spaced practice, interleaving and successive relearning into routines schools can use.
FreeOpens at ollielovell.com
Spacing and desirable difficulties
Chalk & Talk · with Elizabeth Bjork and Robert Bjork
Elizabeth and Robert Bjork explain what makes a difficulty desirable, and why strategies that feel effortful often produce stronger, longer-lasting learning than those that feel easy.
FreeOpens at chalkandtalkpodcast.podbean.com
Jamie Clark · One-page guide · Australia
A one-page summary of Rosenshine's ten research-based principles, set alongside a simple model of memory. Handy for a staff meeting refresher or for new teachers learning the lesson cycle.
FreeOpens at jamieleeclark.com
Natalie Wexler (Minding the Gap) · Substack · 2026 · USA
Wexler visits a New York sixth-grade civics class where rapid, game-like recall of history facts gives students the knowledge to analyse ideas, showing memorisation and engagement can go together.
FreeOpens at nataliewexler.substack.com
Carl Hendrick (The Learning Dispatch) · Substack · 2026 · UK
Using two recent studies, Hendrick shows that students can remember more yet apply no better, and argues retrieval practice works best to maintain knowledge that has first been properly understood.
FreeOpens at carlhendrick.substack.com
Paul Kirschner · Substack · 2026 · International
An explanation of reduced feedback, the least known of the Bjorks' desirable difficulties, and how gradually stepping back from instant correction can build lasting learning and self-regulation.
FreeOpens at paulkirschner173727.substack.com
NSW Department of Education · Technique guide · Australia
Opens at education.nsw.gov.au
The Economy of Meaning · Blog post · International
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Sue Davis, Journal of Think Forward Educators · Journal article (PDF) · 2024 · Australia
Sue Davis explains why Ochre Education (now Impact Curriculum) built daily review resources for maths and what they look like.
Opens at thinkforwardeducators.org
Natalie Wexler (Minding the Gap) · Substack · 2026 · USA
Wexler argues that explicit instruction and retrieval practice are not enough on their own, and that students also need to elaborate on new knowledge, with writing as a practical way to do it.
FreeOpens at nataliewexler.substack.com
Craig Barton (Tips for Teachers) · Substack · 2026 · UK
Barton breaks down a meta-analysis on spacing and retrieval practice in maths, including where spacing helps most and what the findings mean for planning practice and review in maths classrooms.
FreeOpens at tipsforteachers.substack.com
Daisy Christodoulou (No More Marking) · Substack · 2025 · UK
Starting with her grandmother's mental arithmetic, Christodoulou asks whether technology lets us skip the practice that builds knowledge and skill, and why schools need to keep those cognitive muscles working.
FreeOpens at substack.nomoremarking.com
Jamie Clark · One-page guide · Australia
Why recalling information strengthens memory, with practical retrieval, spacing and interleaving ideas for lessons. Draws on Robert Bjork, Kate Jones and Tom Sherrington.
FreeOpens at jamieleeclark.com
Carl Hendrick and Jamie Clark · One-page guide · Australia
A poster version of Carl Hendrick's seven principles for retrieval practice, covering the value of forgetting and pitching enough challenge early. Useful for checking that quizzing is doing real work.
FreeOpens at jamieleeclark.com
Jamie Clark (DistillED) · Newsletter article · 2026 · Australia
Brings together the ten principles, grouped into Tom Sherrington's four strands, with explanations of why they matter and how they look in practice.
FreeOpens at newsletter.jamieleeclark.com
Shaun Brien · Substack · 2026 · Australia
Explains how interleaving mixed practice fights forgetting, and how one teacher fits interleaved revision lessons into a busy senior timetable.
FreeOpens at mutallyassuredinstruction.substack.com
Carl Hendrick (The Learning Dispatch) · Substack · 2025 · UK
Hendrick sets out five ways retrieval practice goes wrong in classrooms, including quizzing on material never learnt and skipping spacing, and discusses a study on retrieval with complex material.
FreeOpens at carlhendrick.substack.com
Paul Kirschner · Substack · 2025 · International
Kirschner summarises a study in which short weekly quizzes, especially interleaved ones, markedly improved students' long-term understanding even though students found them harder at the time.
FreeOpens at paulkirschner173727.substack.com
Natalie Wexler (Minding the Gap) · Substack · 2024 · USA
Wexler reviews write-to-learn research, linking writing to retrieval and elaboration, and argues that writing would boost learning more reliably if teachers made it manageable through explicit sentence-level instruction.
FreeOpens at nataliewexler.substack.com
Jamie Clark · Poster · Australia
An A3 poster on retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving, dual coding and elaboration, explaining why and how to use each. Suitable to share with secondary students and families.
FreeOpens at jamieleeclark.com
John Dunlosky · 2013 · Foundational research
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Weinstein, Madan and Sumeracki · 2018 · Foundational research
Opens at cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com
Dunlosky and colleagues · 2013 · Review
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Roediger and Karpicke · 2006 · Experiment
Opens at psychology.ecu.edu
Fieke Ophuis-Cox · 2026 · Doctoral thesis (four classroom studies)
Opens at research.ou.nl
Blog and downloads · USA
Opens at learningscientists.org
Downloads · USA
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Talks and articles · Australia
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