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When teachers regularly pause during lectures so students can process their thinking with handwritten notes, key content is more likely to stick.

In many classrooms, lectures move quickly, leaving little time for students to digest new information. At Cedaredge High School in Delta, Colorado, social studies teacher Dante Markley builds in intentional pauses so his 10th-grade students can stop, think, and make sense of what they’re learning by processing their thoughts in handwritten notes.

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