Teaching Motivated Minds: Austin TX, November 12-14
Teaching Motivated Minds: Austin TX, November 12-14
A workshop exploring the structure and development of knowledge, and the teaching strategies that develop novices into experts.
Schemas are mental frameworks that organize information in long-term memory. When students develop expert schemas, they understand faster, remember longer, and effectively apply ideas in new situations.
In this training, teachers learn how experts differ from novices, how schemas reduce demands on working memory, and why presenting “more facts” does not necessarily result in “more learning.” We explore classroom strategies that intentionally structure powerful background knowledge, strengthen connections between ideas, and help students integrate new content into what they already know.
Teachers leave with subject-flexible techniques to use immediately, including ways to introduce key concepts, sequence examples, revisit ideas over time, and design practice that supports durable understanding.
Learn the core concepts behind schemas as structures that organize knowledge in long-term memory
Apply evidence-based teaching methods for activating prior knowledge and connecting new learning to existing schemas
Implement research-informed strategies that help students apply knowledge to new contexts
Explore brain-based teaching strategies for helping students develop organized, interconnected knowledge structures
Understand how well-developed schemas free up working memory capacity for new learning in classroom instruction
Learn how schema theory explains differences between novice and expert learners in PK-12 education
Schema Theory
Knowledge Organization
Pattern Recognition
Working Memory
Mental Models
Declarative LTM
Transfer of Learning
Novice/Practictioner/Expert
Prior Knowledge
Procedural LTM
Expertise Development
Metacognition
“Andrew bridges research and practice better than almost anyone in the field. He’s engaging, precise, and wonderfully clear—and he always leaves you with something you can actually use in the classroom the very next day.”
Discover how schema theory supports learning with this science-informed professional development for educators workshop.
