Teaching Motivated Minds: Austin TX, November 12-14
Teaching Motivated Minds: Austin TX, November 12-14
A practical workshop that helps teachers capture and sustain student attention using cognitive science and classroom-ready routines.
Attention is the gateway to learning. When students can’t focus, they can’t process or store the new ideas, processes, or information that teachers offer in class.
In this workshop, educators learn how attention works and how to design instruction that supports it. We explore Posner and Rothbart’s “Tripartite Theory of Attention” to understand alertness, orienting, and executive attention — and what they all mean for learning in PK-12 classrooms.
You’ll leave with strategies you can use immediately, such as lesson pacing moves, reducing distractions and split attention, building effective cues and routines, and structuring tasks to keep students cognitively present.
Understand alertness, orienting, and executive attention from the perspective of cognitive science
Develop evidence-informed teaching methods for maintaining attention throughout classroom instruction
Understand how attention and learning connect to working memory and cognitive load in PK-12 students
Explore brain-based teaching strategies for both initiating and sustaining student attention at the start of lessons and activities
Apply learning science principles to reduce environmental and cognitive distractions that interfere with attention
Implement research-based teaching approaches that emphasize cognitive participation
Alertness
Visual Novelty
Pedagogical Distraction
Attention Disorders
Orienting
Cognitive Load
Dual Planning
Visual Environment
Executive Attention
Movement
Seductive Details
Classroom Salience
“Andrew navigates nuanced, challenging ideas with clarity and care…and does so with warmth, humor, and authenticity. If you have the fortune to attend a session, expect to leave uplifted: somehow having learned without ever feeling like that’s what was happening.””
Bring this evidence-based workshop to your school to learn educational neuroscience for better student attention and learning.
