 Are your teaching methods truly unlocking your students' full potential? Now the link in this video in my latest blog, I explore a new piece of academic research which looks at retrieval practice combined with drawing to help boost student outcomes. Perfect evidence for designing technology teachers like me and art teachers across the country. Why? Well, it reveals that these techniques significantly enhance memory retention and understanding of complex topics and it's further evidence for creative subjects across the profession that drawing can improve our children's outcomes. And how we do this? Well, if we integrate sketching and concept mapping with the traditional things that we do in our classrooms, then we can start to see significant differences. And I wonder if if we could transform these approaches to other subjects, we might see an impact when we combine drawing and retrieval practice methods, particularly on student engagement. So as always, what, when, how and why, retrieval practice, yes, but translate it and transfer it into different settings and consider how your methods might also be effective with different age groups. Teachers who implement retrieval practice help students enhance their understanding of complex topics. And this research, in my opinion, also suggests that it can foster long-term knowledge retention, which is a great win for our creative subjects.