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Teacher CPDThe Science of Learning CPD
Discover evidence-based strategies for the classroom, based on educational psychology research.
Our one day Science of Learning teacher CPD workshop brings our best-selling book The Science of Learning to life, helping your staff find out about the most important educational psychology research in an interesting and useful way.
Divided into three sections, this workshop covers the best evidence-based strategies for the classroom. These will allow your staff to improve students’ memory and resilience and help them become independent learners.
Take a look behind the scenes and find out what this CPD workshop looks like by reading this thorough blog from a teacher who attended one of our Science of Learning CPD courses…
What to expect on the day
- An overview of the most recent and interesting educational research
- Practical strategies to enhance learning in the classroom, based on research
This workshop will helps teachers improve students’:
- Motivation to learn
- Memory and learning
- Resilience
- Metacognition and self-regulation
Key messages
Memory
- Retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving
- Pre-questions and elaborative interrogation
- Dual coding and the production effect
Resilience
- Creating resilient classrooms
- The link between feedback and resilience
- Delayed gratification, fear of failure and high expectations
Independent learning
- Preparing to learn: sleep and breakfast
- Managing distractions: mobile phones and music
- The effects of others: the Bandwagon Effect and the Köhler Effect
Delivery Options
We love to visit schools and meet with educators in person, but we understand that it may not always be possible or practical. This is why we can also deliver any of our Teacher CPD workshops live online on the platform of your choice.
You may also be interested in the Teacher CPD Academy, our online platform that will help your school design the perfect in-house CPD programme effortlessly.
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Discover how these 10 Principles bridge the gap between educational research and classroom practice.
Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction have become increasingly popular in education due to their useful but familiar teaching strategies that can help enhance student learning.
Rosenshine’s principles combine research from cognitive science as well as observations from the classroom, so that teachers can develop a deeper understanding of how students learn and how to effectively implement classroom strategies to aid this.
What to expect on the day
- An overview of Rosenshine’s 10 Principles of Instruction
- Practical strategies to use them in the classroom
- The opportunity to discuss the research and practice
- An enjoyable course, delivered by our experienced, knowledgeable coaches
The 10 Key Principles
This CPD workshop will cover what Rosenshine’s 10 principles are, explore the research surrounding them and look at how they can implement those within day-to-day practices.
- 1. Review previous learning
- 2. Present new material in small steps
- 3. Ask lots of good questions
- 4. Provide models and worked examples
- 5. Practise using new materials
- 6. Check for understanding
- 7. Obtain a high success rate
- 8. Provide scaffolding
- 9. Independent practice
- 10. Weekly and monthly review
Delivery Options
We love to visit schools and meet with educators in person, but we understand that it may not always be possible or practical. This is why we can also deliver any of our Teacher CPD workshops live online on the platform of your choice.
You may also be interested in the Teacher CPD Academy, our online platform that will help your school design the perfect in-house CPD programme effortlessly.
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Implement this effective revision strategy in your classroom with research-backed strategies.
Nearly every educator knows about it now. The next step? Working out how we can best apply it to our practice.
Retrieval Practice has consistently been proven to be the most effective revision strategy such that getting students to recall previously-learnt information leads to stronger memory traces being created, hence making it more likely that the information is transferred to the long-term memory.
This CPD workshop explores the very latest research into Retrieval Practice and translates it into effective classroom strategies and techniques.
What to expect on the day
- An overview of the most recent and helpful research on Retrieval Practice
- Tips to create the right classroom environment for effective Retrieval Practice
- Practical strategies to use Retrieval Practice with your students
- Advice to get all students to engage with Retrieval Practice
Key messages
Creating a low-stakes environment
- The importance of retrieval being stress-free
- Accelerating learning vs Assessing learning
Retrieval tips
- Should you give hints?
- How to avoid the illusion of learning
- The Retrieval Effort Hypothesis
- Does unsuccessful retrieval help?
Getting a response to retrieval questions from all students
- Cold calling
- Wait times
Multiple-choice questionnaires
- How many answers to give
- How hard to make multiple-choice questionnaires
- Should you use “All of the above” and “None of the above” answers?
Delivery Options
We love to visit schools and meet with educators in person, but we understand that it may not always be possible or practical. This is why we can also deliver any of our Teacher CPD workshops live online on the platform of your choice.
You may also be interested in the Teacher CPD Academy, our online platform that will help your school design the perfect in-house CPD programme effortlessly.
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]]>Metacognition: Practical Strategies CPD
Showing teachers how to develop students’ self-regulation, emotional control, and independence.
Metacognition is often defined as “thinking about thinking”, or “learning to learn” – it is the ability to reflect and critically analyse what you think and choose helpful thought processes. It has been highlighted by The Education Endowment Foundation as one of the most cost-effective ways to help students improve their learning.
Our Metacognition: Practical Strategies teacher CPD workshop will help your staff learn more about what metacognition is, how to use it in the classroom and, above all, how to help students develop independent learning skills and strategies.
We also recommend our Metacognition: Plan, Do, Review CPD workshop as an add-on to this one.
This course will help teachers improve their students’:
- Metacognitive skills
- Self-regulation
- Emotional control
- Self-awareness
Key messages
Learning strategies
- Teaching for learning
- Effective long-term memory strategies
Model your thinking
- Help students avoid common mistakes
- Improve transfer of knowledge
Metacognitive questions
- Use questions effectively
- Better use of wait times
Classroom environment
- Create a resilient culture
- High expectations
- Focus on strategy
Self-regulation
- Managing emotions
- Focusing on what you can control
Self-reflection
- The triple A of self-reflection
Delivery Options
We love to visit schools and meet with educators in person, but we understand that it may not always be possible or practical. This is why we can also deliver any of our Teacher CPD workshops live online on the platform of your choice.
You may also be interested in the Teacher CPD Academy, our online platform that will help your school design the perfect in-house CPD programme effortlessly.
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Help your students to reflect and critically analyse their thinking before, during and after a task.
Metacognition is often defined as “thinking about thinking”, or “learning to learn” – it is the ability to reflect and critically analyse what you think and choose helpful thought processes. It has been highlighted by The Education Endowment Foundation as one of the most cost-effective ways to help students improve their learning.
There are many metacognitive strategies you can use with your students, and they can often be divided into three stages: before, during and after a task. Our “Metacognition: Plan, Do, Review” teacher CPD workshop will give your staff practical strategies to help your students think metacognitively at each stage of their learning.
This CPD workshop can be delivered on its own, but we recommend booking it as an add-on to our Metacognition: Practical Strategies CPD workshop for a more complete view of metacognition and metacognitive strategies.
This course will help teachers improve students’:
- Metacognitive skills
- Self-regulation
- Emotional control
- Self-awareness
Key messages
Before: Planning
- How to enhance motivation
- Avoiding the Planning Fallacy
- Solution-focused questions
- Don’t “blank page” your students
During: Doing
- Help self-regulate emotions
- Controlled focus on the task at hand
After: Reviewing
- How to ask for and receive feedback
- Effective self-reflection
- Using metacognitive questions for learning
Delivery Options
We love to visit schools and meet with educators in person, but we understand that it may not always be possible or practical. This is why we can also deliver any of our Teacher CPD workshops live online on the platform of your choice.
You may also be interested in the Teacher CPD Academy, our online platform that will help your school design the perfect in-house CPD programme effortlessly.
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Learn research-based teaching strategies to improve students’ memory, concentration, and mindset.
In this workshop, explore the psychology and neuroscience of how students learn effectively.
This Memory and Learning CPD workshop combines the latest research with practical tips and strategies. As a result, it will help you improve students’ memory, concentration and mindset. You will leave this workshop with a better understanding of the science of learning, and how to integrate this knowledge into your teaching.
What to expect on the day
- Tips to help your students enhance memory and develop their retention and recall
- Strategies to enhance student learning and improve exam performance
- Understand how sleep helps memory
- Review and discuss the latest research from psychology and neuroscience
- Explore the importance of stress and strategies to reduce stress and procrastination
This workshop will helps teachers:
- Know about the strategies that have been shown to work
- Improve learning in their classroom
- Transform their students’ revision techniques and performance
Key messages
Retrieval Practice
- Generating an answer to a question
- How both staff and students can use retrieval practice
Spacing
- Spacing vs cramming
- How to weave spacing into your lesson design
Interleaving
- The importance of mixing up the topics within a subject
Dual-coding
- The power of combining words with pictures
- Integrating diagrams with descriptions
The Production Effect
- Reading out loud vs reading in silence
- Other techniques to harness the production effect
Elaborative Interrogation
- The importance of self-questioning
- The best questions to ask yourself
Pre-questions
- Starting a lesson effectively with pre-questions
Delivery Options
We love to visit schools and meet with educators in person, but we understand that it may not always be possible or practical. This is why we can also deliver any of our Teacher CPD workshops live online on the platform of your choice.
You may also be interested in the Teacher CPD Academy, our online platform that will help your school design the perfect in-house CPD programme effortlessly.
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A practical introduction to Cognitive Load, avoiding cognitive overload, and more efficient learning.
It has been described as one of the most important psychological theories that teachers should know, but what actually is Cognitive Load Theory? This concept states that, if students are presented with too many new elements at the same time, their brain won’t be able to cope and will fail to store the information. This is why knowledge of Cognitive Load Theory – and how to avoid cognitive overload in the classroom – can help any teacher make learning more efficient for their students.
Our Cognitive Load Theory workshops explain the research on the subject in a simple to understand yet easy to use way. Your staff will leave with a range of evidence informed strategies that can help their students learn more efficiently and effectively in their lessons.
This workshop will help teachers help students’:
- Long-term memory
- Learning efficiency
- Revision strategies
- Rate of learning
What to expect on the day
- An overview of Cognitive Load Theory and the different types of cognitive load
- Practical strategies to help reduce cognitive overload in your lessons
- Review and discuss the latest memory and learning research
Key messages
What is Cognitive Load?
- An introduction and overview
- Working memory, long-term memory and the importance of transfer
How to present new information
- The Split-Attention Effect
- The Redundancy Effect
Scaffolding support
- Worked Examples
- Completion Tasks
- The Expert Reversal Effect
Maximising long-term memory
- Retrieval Practice, Production Effect
- Spacing, Interleaving
- Dual Coding, Elaborative Interrogation
Delivery Options
We love to visit schools and meet with educators in person, but we understand that it may not always be possible or practical. This is why we can also deliver any of our Teacher CPD workshops live online on the platform of your choice.
You may also be interested in the Teacher CPD Academy, our online platform that will help your school design the perfect in-house CPD programme effortlessly.
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Create the right environment to develop gritty, resilient, self-motivated students.
Growth Mindset is a learning theory developed by Dr Carol Dweck. It revolves around the belief that we can improve our intelligence, abilities and performance. Naturally, it has become one of the most popular psychological theories in education.
Our Growth Mindset CPD workshops are based on the latest research. But above all, your staff will learn about practical tips and strategies that they can start using straight away. They will leave our CPD workshops with a clearer understanding of what Growth Mindset is, and how to best foster it in their classrooms and at your school.
This course will help teachers improve students’:
- Motivation
- Ability to learn faster
- Reaction to setbacks
- Grit and resilience
Key messages
A history of intelligence and ability
- Are you born smart, or can you become smart?
- A history of the IQ test
- Case studies
The role of effort
- Teaching students that the brain can develop
- Avoiding labels
- How expectations affect motivation and effort
- Purposeful praise: effort over ability and outcome
Attitude to mistakes
- The importance of mistakes in the learning process
- Creating a Growth Mindset culture
- Efficient and effective feedback processes
- Purposeful praise: skill attainment, improvement, asking for feedback
Dealing with setbacks
- Famous failures
- Improving self-talk
- Purposeful praise: grit, determination, persistence
Risk taking and curiosity
- The worst case scenario hardly ever happens
- Purposeful praise: curiosity, courage, choosing a difficult task
Delivery Options
We love to visit schools and meet with educators in person, but we understand that it may not always be possible or practical. This is why we can also deliver any of our Teacher CPD workshops live online on the platform of your choice.
You may also be interested in the Teacher CPD Academy, our online platform that will help your school design the perfect in-house CPD programme effortlessly.
Would your students benefit from this course?
We also offer this workshop as a student workshop.
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Explore the psychology behind effective revision, and ways to help your students manage exam stress.
In this workshop, explore the psychology and neuroscience behind effective revision and exam stress management.
We combine the latest research along with practical tips and suggestions. So, this workshop will help you improve your students’ exam preparation, and help them combat any nerves and stress. This stress management CPD workshop will give you a better understanding of how to perform under pressure. As a result, it will allow you to best help students to maximise their exam performance.
This workshop will help teachers improve students’:
- Confidence
- Concentration
- Emotional control
- Self-regulation
What to expect on the day
- Tips to help students improve long term memory during revision
- Find out what the research says about the habits of effective revisers
- Explore stress management, how to enhance confidence and reduce nerves
- Review and discuss the latest research from psychology and neuroscience
- Explore the importance of stress management and strategies to reduce procrastination
Key messages
Language
- Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs)
- The consequences of negative self-talk
- Controlling self-talk
- Making self-talk positive, helpful and energised
Emotional control
- Negative emotions often result in poor decision making
- Pinpointing the source of nerves or frustration
- Managing emotions using “Recognise, Stop, Redirect”
- Reframing threats as opportunities
Attention
- It’s not how hard you focus, but where you focus that matters
- The common attention mistakes that students make
- Focusing on what you can control i.e. the Me, the Now and the Process
Physiology
- The link between the body and the brain
- How body language can impact and increase intensity
- How to calm down with breathing
Delivery Options
We love to visit schools and meet with educators in person, but we understand that it may not always be possible or practical. This is why we can also deliver any of our Teacher CPD workshops live online on the platform of your choice.
You may also be interested in the Teacher CPD Academy, our online platform that will help your school design the perfect in-house CPD programme effortlessly.
Would your students benefit from this course?
We also offer this workshop as a student workshop.
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Providing the skills and theory needed to develop staff confidence and create better leaders.
The environment in which leadership operates has changed dramatically over the last few decades, setting new challenges for us all. Despite this, the principles behind leadership and the required skills to be a good leader haven’t changed much.
This workshop goes through both the theory and the practical skills and techniques that will help your staff become better leaders. It also gives them a chance to practice these skills in a safe environment.
We provide custom designed workshops to fit the unique requirements of your school.
This workshop will help teachers improve their:
- Leadership skills
- Confidence
- Communication skills
- Problem solving
What to expect on the day
- An explanation of what makes a good leader
- Practical strategies to develop leadership within your school
- The opportunity to practice leadership skills safely
Key messages
The principles of leadership
- Defining leadership and why it is necessary
- The characteristics of good leaders
- The different styles of leadership
The cornerstones of leadership
- Vision
- Values
- Passion
- People skills
The art and skills of leadership
- Communicating – Listening, clarifying, informing, persuading, directing
- Motivating – Influencing, challenging, inspiring
- Managing – Problem solving, scheduling, delegating, fire fighting
- Enabling – Removing barriers, providing resources
- Supporting – Serve to lead
Delivery Options
We love to visit schools and meet with educators in person, but we understand that it may not always be possible or practical. This is why we can also deliver any of our Teacher CPD workshops live online on the platform of your choice.
You may also be interested in the Teacher CPD Academy, our online platform that will help your school design the perfect in-house CPD programme effortlessly.
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