Science for Learning
Free

Why join the course?
On this course you will discover how amazing our brain is: how we learn, how the brain adapts and what all this means for teachers and your students
This course – designed for STEM teachers in primary and secondary schools, and sixth form and further education colleges – will help you understand and use it more effectively.
What topics will you cover?
- The key principles of learning
- Definition of learning
- The neuroscience myths and the structure of the brain
- Models of learning
- The structure of the brain: subcortical structures
- Learning in the brain: engage, build, consolidate
- Engaging with research in teaching
- Engagement for learning
- Building of knowledge and understanding
- Multisensory
- Developing effective knowledge recall strategies
- Sleep helps us consolidate what we have learnt during the day
- The Science of Learning in your classroom
- Plasticity and our ability to learn
- Creating an action research plan
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you’ll be able to…
- collect and analyse evidence from students on changes implemented in the classroom in order to critically reflect on own practice in order to prioritise next steps in own development
- define the meaning and elements and models of learning
- understand the neuroscience myths and the structure of the brain
- engage your students in the learning process
- building of knowledge and understanding
- develop effective knowledge recall strategies
- help your students consolidate what we have learnt during the day
- apply the Science of Learning in your classroom
Course Features
- Lectures 0
- Quizzes 0
- Duration 50 hours
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 0
- Assessments Yes
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