This implies that prospective teachers should be educated in cognitive science. I have devised and taught a course of this kind and will discuss my experiences, both positive and negative. As with psychotherapy, supervision and peer supervision should be continuing processes. This model can be contrasted with existing practica and evaluations. There is a need for scientist-practitioners, to advance and shape research and to aid dissemination and translation of research into practice.
Implication is the founding of a new kind of degree program and new kind of professional.
Evidence-based decisions should be the goal for education. The field of discourse processing offers some solutions to the challenge of promoting deep comprehension during learning. The present article sketches the salient components of discourse processing mechanisms and subsequently points out how such mechanisms can be recruited to improve deep comprehension. Researchers in the field of discourse processing investigate the structures, patterns, mental representations, and psychological processes that underlie written and spoken discourse. It is an interdisciplinary field that includes psychology, rhetoric, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, conversation analysis, education, sociology, anthropology, and computer science.