Chunking will help students in every subject area to recall information more readily. If great teaching is effecting intended learning outcomes, then learning is achieving those intended outcomes. However, the teacher's role is more than presenting material. The teacher enpowers the student with knowledge and how to retrieve and apply what has been learned. As master of the material, the teacher can quickly leave a class in a cloud of overwhelming information if the cumulative process of education is not considered.
Teaching is a building project.
The teacher's role in learning is to help the students acquire a mastery of the material. Teachers can accomplish this monumental task of enpowering students only after realizing that the role of a teacher is to produce intended learning outcomes. Children need to participate in their own learning experience if true education occurs. The teacher who recognizes the role that memory plays in cognitive learning will be more effective in the classroom and, more important, more effective with each student. While teacher's roles are varied, one thing remains clear.