This training is engaging, fully immersive, and practical. Flexibility exists to best meet your unique professional development needs, including virtual delivery. It is designed to be a traditional one-day workshop or a conference-style workshop.

 

Traditional Workshop

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8:30 am – 10:00 am

Memory is at the center of learning 

• Take a memory test to highlight its importance for teaching

• Explore a simple memory model

• Look at the benefits of retrieval

 

10:15 am – 11:30 am

Elaboration is the key that unlocks deep learning

• Learn how making sense of new information affects memory retention

• Investigate the elaborate model for processing design

• Examine the shortfalls of worksheets that are so prevalent in schools

 

11:30 am – 12:45 pm (Lunch)

 

12:45 pm – 2:00 pm

Apply the memory model to teaching

• Retake the memory test with a focus on elaboration

• Tie elaboration into a traditional lesson cycle

• Plan for increasing the power of encoding and retrieval

 

2:15 pm – 3:30 pm

Kick those worksheets to the curb

• Explore the Worksheets Don't Work resource

• Learn how to use the dashboards for planning

• Start replacing upcoming worksheets with engaging tasks that make learning stick

 

 

Conference-style workshop

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45 minute sessions

Designed to be held on a normal school day as teachers rotate through the workshop during their planning periods

• Take an abbreviated memory test to highlight the importance of elaboration

• Plan for increasing the power of encoding and retrieval

• Start replacing upcoming worksheets with engaging tasks that make learning stick