Teaching Motivated Minds: Austin TX, November 12-14
Teaching Motivated Minds: Austin TX, November 12-14
Explore how working memory enables students to think, learn, and solve problems—and how teachers can help them use it effectively.
Working memory is the mental space where students hold and manipulate information as they think and learn. They rely on it constantly: combining ideas, solving problems, writing sentences, and applying new knowledge. When working memory becomes overloaded, students can lose track of steps, misunderstand concepts, or struggle to show what they know.
In this workshop, teachers explore how working memory shapes learning—and how instructional choices can help students use it effectively. We’ll connect cognitive science research to classroom decisions about lesson design, directions, routines, examples, and the introduction of new ideas.
Throughout the session, participants apply these ideas to classroom materials and lessons. Teachers leave with a clearer understanding of working memory’s possibilities and constraints, and new perspectives on how to support students’ thinking and learning.
Explore how working memory enables students to think, solve problems, and learn—and what happens when its capacity is overwhelmed.
Consider how lesson design, explanations, examples, and classroom routines can help students use working memory effectively.
Understand how working memory interacts with long-term memory as students acquire knowledge and develop understanding.
Examine how instructional choices can reduce unnecessary cognitive demands while supporting students’ thinking and learning.
Explore how working memory demands can create difficulties for students—and how teachers can respond.
Apply ideas from cognitive science to classroom examples, lessons, and instructional decisions.
Cognitive Load Theory
Managing Instructions
Note-Taking Strategies
Dual Coding Theory
Working Memory Capacity
Scaffolding Techniques
Checking for Understanding
Cognitive Science Research
Attention and Learning
Visual & Verbal Processing
Prior & Powerful Knowledge
Evidence-Based Teaching
“Andrew’s training sessions are invaluable, connecting theory with practice and clarifying working memory. I consistently leave with actionable strategies and powerful insights into motivation and mindset, along with tools to better support my students and have directly improved the effectiveness of the trainings I deliver.”
Bring this evidence-based teaching training to your school or district. Join educators nationwide using working memory strategies for classroom success.
Neuroscience-informed strategies for capturing and maintaining student focus
Research-based teaching for lasting knowledge retention
