CPD pack: Learning to learn
The aim of our CPD packs is to support members in further exploring the themes raised in an issue of our journal, Impact. CPD packs provide guidance and resources to help facilitate staff CPD based on key articles from each issue.
This pack relates to the following two articles:
- ‘Learning to learn: Using evidence to enhance knowledge retention and improve outcomes‘, written by Caroline Creaby, Deputy Headteacher and Research School Director, Sandringham School; Kate Mouncey, Head of Sixth Form and Research Lead, Sandringham School; and Karen Roskilly, Research Lead, Sandringham School
- ‘Cognitive Load Theory and its application in the classroom‘, written by Dominic Shibli, Senior Lecturer in Secondary Science, University of Hertfordshire; and Rachel West, Head of Psychology, The Nobel School.
The packs are designed to be flexible so they can be used and adapted to deliver a one-off session or a longer series of CPD opportunities. The facilitator notes contain suggestions for how to shorten or extend activities depending on whether you wish to provide a brief snapshot of the research or explore the concepts over a longer time period. We recognise that preparing and resourcing high quality CPD in schools and colleges is both time consuming and expensive, and we hope that these CPD packs will help reduce teachers’ and school leaders’ workload as well as providing a supportive framework enabling all school members to facilitate CPD confidently.
The pack
The materials below allow teachers to explore the implications of cognitive load theoryAbbreviated to CLT, the idea that working memory is limited and that overloading it can have a negative impact on learning, and that instruction should be designed to take this into account on students’ revision for exams. There’ll be an opportunity, in particular, to think deeply about how sequencing and scaffoldingProgressively introducing students to new concepts to support their learning might work in practice within their own contexts.
This pack contains the following:
- Presentation slides
- Facilitator guidance
- A copy of the Creaby et al. article
- A copy of the Shibli and West article
- Note-making handout
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