ABSTRACT
This chapter describes strategies related to planning, development, and reinforcement and discusses practical ways that teachers can implement these strategies in their classrooms. Teachers can introduce spaced practice techniques to their students in two ways: by creating opportunities to revisit information throughout the semester or within one lesson; and by helping students to create their own effective study schedules. One way of getting students to plan out their studying is to have students work with their own schedules to create a realistic study plan. Having some unexpected quizzes at the beginning of some lectures, and some at the end might be a good way to ensure that students arrive on time and stay for the whole class. In one set of studies with vocabulary learning, students made guesses on items they had no idea about – their guesses had no basis whatsoever in any knowledge.
