421: Help People Learn Through Powerful Teaching, with Pooja Agarwal

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Management, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Pooja Agarwal: Powerful Teaching

Pooja Agarwal is an expert in the field of cognitive science and is passionate about bridging gaps between education and the science of learning. She is the founder of RetrievalPractice.org and Assistant Professor at the Berklee College of Music, teaching psychological science to exceptional undergraduate musicians.

She also serves as a consultant and facilitates professional development workshops on the science of learning around the world. Pooja is the author with Patrice Bain of the book Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning*.

In this conversation, Pooja and I discuss the key strategies that leaders can use in order to maximize their effectiveness as teachers. Since almost every leader is responsible for talent development in some capacity, becoming a more powerful teacher will help you develop others more successfully.

Key Points

The three stages of the learning process are encoding, storage, and retrieval. We tend to focus too much on getting information into peoples’ heads (encoding) and not enough on getting it out (retrieval).
Stop reviewing past discussions and meetings. Instead, invite people to recall and articulate prior interactions.
Cramming works, but only in the short-term. For long-term retention, spacing is much more effective.
There is no significant evidence that visual, auditory, and kinetic preferences correlate to actual learning. Instead, effective learning combines all these methods.

Bonus Audio

Why struggling is a good thing for learning

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0:00.0	Almost every leadership role calls on us to develop the skills of others.
0:05.0	Yet most leaders have never had any formal training, or even a single course on how to teach.
0:11.0	In this episode, Key strategies from the science of learning
0:14.7	that will help you develop others faster and better. This is coaching for
0:19.4	leaders episode 421. Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:27.0	Readings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your
0:36.7	host Dave Stachovia. Leaders aren't born, they're made, And this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom
0:45.5	through insightful conversations. One of the key skills that all of us tap into as leaders is teaching others. We don't always call it teaching
0:56.9	and we may call it training, we may call it skill development, but really part of the
1:00.9	role of a leader is being a teacher.
1:04.4	Oftentimes we have a little bit more experience
1:08.0	in something that we have delegated to someone else
1:11.0	or we're helping someone to maybe explore a skill for the first time and we need to take on the
1:16.4	role of teacher or trainer and yet most of us have received absolutely no training on how to do that.
1:25.0	And if we have received training, it's been in a lot of other areas.
1:28.0	Today we're going to take you back to school and really explore some of the science behind how to teach in a more powerful
1:36.7	way and how to use a couple of key practices that will help you to help others to learn effectively.
1:44.8	I am so thrilled to welcome to the show today.
1:47.4	Puja Agarwal, she is an expert in the field of cognitive science
1:51.9	and is passionate about bridging gaps between education
1:55.2	and the science of learning.
1:56.9	Bouches research has been published in leading peer-reviewed psychology journals
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