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Podcast: The Structured Literacy Podcast
Episode: S4 E9 - Instructional Spring Cleaning - One Student at the Front
Description: In this episode of the Structured Literacy podcast, Jocelyn examines the common classroom practice of bringing one student to the front to answer questions, arguing that while it benefits the chosen student, it creates passive learning experiences for the rest of the class whose attention spans are already limited. Drawing on research showing that Grade 1 students can maintain on-task behaviour for only about 7 minutes in natural classroom settings and citing Stanislas Dehaene's work on attention development, she demonstrates how this practice creates self-regulation challenges, split teacher attention, and extraneous cognitive load particularly when used late in lessons when students' "...