Teaching Motivated Minds: Austin TX, November 12-14
Teaching Motivated Minds: Austin TX, November 12-14
Help students remember what they learn. This workshop trains educators in durable learning routines that strengthen long-term consolidation through effective, research-backed classroom techniques.
Unlike working memory – which is both limited and easily overloaded – long-term memory has no practical limits. No, really – you do not need to forget one thing to learn another! In this workshop, teachers learn to design instruction so that short-term processing turns into enduring knowledge and lasting understanding.
Teachers will practice classroom-ready methods such as spacing, interleaving, retrieval practice, generative learning, and even effective pre-questions. We will also discuss the dangers of prior misconceptions, and effective strategies to overcome them. This workshop focuses on routines and strategies that can be applied immediately.
Teachers leave with a toolkit of lesson structures and review systems that help knowledge stick, reduce forgetting, and improve students’ ability to recall and apply learning over time.
Understand cognitive science research on encoding, consolidatation, and retrieval in PK-12 learners
Apply brain-based teaching methods such as spacing and interleaving to enhance memory and transfer
Implement research-based teaching strategies that slow the forgetting curve in classroom instruction
Explore evidence-based teaching techniques using retrieval practice to strengthen learning and retention
Learn how schema theory supports building organized knowledge structures in long-term memory
Understand the ways that students’ prior beliefs can support or distract from new learning
Retrieval Practice
Elaborative Interrogation
Memory Consolidation
Metacognition
Spaced Repetition
Self-Explanation
Forgetting Curve
Testing Effect
Interleaving
Schema Building
Transfer of Learning
Educational Neuroscience
“The schema theory workshop helped me understand why some students grasp concepts quickly while others struggle. The cognitive science for teachers content gave me practical brain-based teaching strategies for building strong knowledge structures. This evidence-based teaching training has improved my instruction dramatically!”
Implement neuroscience in education training that helps students build knowledge that lasts with this evidence-based teaching workshop.
