Instructional strategies

Description:
This session brings together the teaching strategy of metacognition with the emerging research on neuroscience. In its simplest form metacognition teaches students about their own thinking and their own learning and thereby promotes greater control over their own learning. Teachers who are informed about the research on neuroscience develop a more complex understanding of the influences on student learning. Those teachers are better placed to support all students to become independent learners, from those who have experienced trauma through to gifted students. This full day session draws on the practical experience of a leading teacher who has successfully implemented these approaches in their classroom and includes substantial discussion, exploration and question time. The aim for the session is that you will leave with new resources and/or an implementation plan for your classroom.

Standards addressed:

• 1.2.2 Understand how learners learn
• 3.2.2 Plan, structure and sequence learning programs
• 3.3.2 Use teaching strategies

Course Length: 5 hours

Presenter: Roland Lewis