 obviously know a lot about retrieval practice but do you know about pre retrieval? Now in this blog pre questions transform subconscious learning towards that active experience, making our students active participants in their learning. So a simple example would be what topic am I going to talk about in tomorrow evenings video and this is a simple way to activate your neurons your kind of prior connections and to help strengthen and make new synaptic connections. So pre questions don't just prime the brain for new information but they turn every opportunity in your classroom towards boosting engagement and retention. So when you go through this link this paper here and gives you loads of examples and a lovely little diagram explaining what you can do in your class. You could start in your next class with a challenging question, image on the screen or a fancy object and prime students for next lesson. I often do it in all my teacher training sessions where I might craft a thought-provoking question at the start and thread it throughout the whole session. Make it relevant, make it challenging and aim to reduce any anxiety to help strengthen that retrieval process. So click the link in the research, click the blog and I've also included a second link to a top practical resource from me to help bring all this to life. Try pre questions as an explicit strategy in your classroom tomorrow.