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Current Research Projects:

Cognitive Load Theory and Dual Coding

​The project, which is to be undertaken by all teaching staff, is designed to scale up existing staff understanding and to further develop high-quality, evaluated practice. Teachers, and teaching HLTAs,  will be given supported opportunities to understand, experiment with and explore underpinning rationales through reading, professionally rewarding dialogue and creative classroom practice. Through the project, we will build on a shared understanding and model of pedagogy. Development will be focused on identifying and removing barriers to learning.

Memory and Recall - how do we share our understanding with pupils?

We want our pupils to have the language to articulate how they hold on to their learning and are able to make links between and across topics and subjects.

​Through a series of lessons to introduce and explain to pupils how memory and cognitive load impacts upon their learning, pupils will be taught strategies for memory and recall.

This project uses the knowledge and understanding of a staff member's degree qualification and strategies from memory and recall inset. It will make links to Growth Mindset strategies and how we teach pupils about the learning process. It will utilise strategies for talk to support pupils to have the language and sentence structures to talk about their understanding of the role of memory in their learning. Research will explore their understanding of the strategies we use (learning journeys, spiral planning, learning intentions, practice and making memory links) and how  they use them to support their learning.       

Research will be carried out through:
  • Trial lessons and strategies 
  • Support for key drivers of initiative to trial lessons and strategies
  • Staff inset with the support of Hanna Filfilan (Teaching and Learning Lead)
Blue Gate Fields Junior School   -   King David Lane   -   London   -    E1 0EH   -    Tel: 020 7790 3616