Questions about the Transfer poster

What’s on the Transfer poster?

10 entries in 2 groups. Near transfer is common. Far transfer is rare and hard to engineer. What limits transfer: Skills are tied to the content they were learnt on, Surface fea…; What helps a little: Teach with several varied examples, Name the deep structure expl…. Educational reference. Claims that a subject trains the mind in general are old and weakly supported. Teach the thing you want learnt.

Who is the Transfer poster for?

Transfer belongs to the Education section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning learning theory can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Transfer poster?

Use it before promising that a lesson teaches transferable thinking skills. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Transfer belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Transfer?

Behaviourism, Cognitive Load Theory and Constructivism sit alongside Transfer in the Education section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.BehaviourismCognitive Load TheoryConstructivism

Is the Transfer poster free to download and print?

Yes. Transfer downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Education section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Transfer poster print at?

Transfer is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Transfer loses nothing.Printing guide