Art & Science of Learning ARCHIVES

What impact does your teaching have on your students’ learning? What strategies have been proven to meet the needs of a range of learners? Using the most current knowledge of what we know about how students learn best, this professional development group explored innovative and tried-and-true teaching strategies. Topics included spacing of curriculum, moving beyond lecture, choice and play, memory, feedback and assessment, and authentic learning.

2019-2020

Meeting 1 - Teachers Are Researchers (Neuroteach by Glenn Whitman and Ian Kelleher, Chapter 12)

Meeting 2 - Teaching Introverts

Meeting 3 - Differentiating Instruction to Increase Engagement for all

2018-2019 

Meeting 1 - Understanding the Functions of the Brain

Meeting 2 - Homework 

Meeting 3 - Executive Skills

• • Questionnaire, Checklist, and Tips from The Work-Smart Academic Planner by Dawson and Guare

Meeting 4 - Feedback and Assessment (Part 1)

Meeting 5 - Feedback and Assessment (Part 2)

Meeting 6 - Classroom Design

2017-2018 

Meeting 1 - Active Learning 

• • The Learning Scientists Learn How to Study Using...Spaced Practice 

  • The Cornerstone for Teachers Total Participation Techniques

Meeting 2 - Aid Memory - The Testing Effect

• • Cult of Pedagogy Retrieval Practice: The Most Powerful Learning Strategies You’re Not Using 

Meeting 3 - Choice and Play 

• • Time Magazine - Learning Through Play 

  • Socratic Smackdown

  • How Improv Games Can Open the Mind to Learning in the Classroom and Beyond 

Meeting 4 - Feedback 

• • Feedback Presentation 

Meeting 5 - Show and Share 

• • Become a Better Note Taker 

  • Brain Breaks