Current Learning Projects:
Cognitive Load Theory and Dual Coding
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The project, which was undertaken by all teaching staff, was designed to scale up existing staff understanding and to further develop high-quality, evaluated practice. Teachers, and teaching HLTAs, were given supported opportunities to understand, experiment with and explore underpinning rationales through reading, professionally rewarding dialogue and creative classroom practice. Through the project, we built a shared understanding and model of pedagogy. Development was focused on identifying and removing barriers to learning. The project is to be further developed through a focus on using dual coding and graphic organisation to support retrieval of knowledge - children knowing more, and remembering more.
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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:
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)