Science for Learning

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