21TRA646 Using Cognitive Science in the Classroom
Date: Tuesday, 9 & Wednesday 17 November, 2021
Time: 7 - 8 pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
This webinar series will help teachers develop an awareness of how to practically integrate effective, research-backed strategies from cognitive science into your classroom practice. These strategies are an innovative and effective way of approaching revision or study skills in the classrom so that learning sticks, long term.
The series will run over two sessions.
Session 1:
How Learning happens & how learning doesnt happen: Building schema and preventing cognitive load and the forgetting curve.
Dual coding and graphic organisers: How to organise and present ideas effectively so students understand better and learn more.
Session 2:
Retrieval practice: Daily strategies to revisit key learning.
Elaborative Interrogation: engaging strategies to elaborate and expand understanding
Interleaving & Spaced practice : Retrieval practice strategies that incorporate spaced practice & interleaving to beat the forgetting curve.
Presenter Bio: Clare Madden
Clare Madden is a teacher of English and History at Glanmire Community College.
Course Details
| Course Start Date / Time | 09-11-2021 7:00 pm |
| Course End Date / Time | 17-11-2021 8:00 pm |
| Cut off date | 17-11-2021 6:00 pm |
| Available place | 1000 |
| Fee | Free |
| Number Hours | 2 x 1 hr sessions (Tues 9th & Wed 17th Nov) |
| Speaker | Clare Madden |
| Location | Online |