Program for Educators
Co-developed with the world’s leading experts on human learning, this online professional development provide compelling research and insightful application to bolster teaching efficacy and improve your students’ ability to learn. The program is complemented with live synchronous group collaboration, assignments and application hours to support educators.
Discover each of our 12 Modules on the Science of Learning
Learn from a team of global experts on the Science of Learning
Explore how we apply what we teach to how we teach it
Only 40% of elementary students are proficient in math and 36% in science — dropping to 25% and 20% by high school. A system designed to measure learning has instead hindered it.
90% of struggling students report negative mental health effects. In 2023, the CDC found that 40% of students feel persistent sadness, 20% seriously consider suicide, and 9% attempt it. The impact goes far beyond academics.
500 years ago, a highly educated person processed 74 GB of information in a lifetime. Today, the average person processes that much every day. Our brains filter out 99.9% of information, and students’ ability to focus, process, and manage information is increasingly challenged.
At the same time, diagnoses like ADHD have skyrocketed, while inattention caused by frustration and learning struggles is often misinterpreted. Strong executive function skills essential for academic success, decision-making, and life outcomes are more important than ever.
Students become sophisticated learners when we teach them in a way that fosters learning while developing their ability to learn independently. Learn the core tenets of a sophisticated learner and how to design your lessons to ensure students learn optimally.
Skills Targeted:
Class participation; active listening; focus; student engagement; dual-coding; effective use of multimedia
Attention is a core cognitive skill that plays a critical role in learning. While students are often told to “pay attention,” they are rarely taught how. Learn how to capture, keep, and gauge your students’ attention.
Skills Targeted:
Ability to process and integrate information; follow directions; listening skills; focus
Processing speed refers to a learner’s ability to perceive, integrate, and respond to visual, auditory, or motor information. Learn how to discern and tailor your teaching to accommodate variations in processing speeds within your classroom.
Skills Targeted:
Ability to integrate and express what is learned; communication-skills; attention and self-regulation.
It is difficult to identify a learning task that does not rely on working memory, the ability to mentally juggle information. Become well versed in the ins and outs of working memory and learn classroom strategies that support and strengthen it.
Skills Targeted:
Activating prior knowledge; forming associations; decision-making; comprehension
Executive function skills predict academic and career success. Learn meaningful strategies to support your students’ acquisition of executive function and how to recognize and address Executive Dysfunction.
Skills Targeted:
Time management; organization strategies; self-regulation; initiation, self -management skills
Studies show students rely on ineffective strategies to learn resulting in superficial learning. Learn how to foster your student’s ability to acquire knowledge using proven techniques that facilitate the encoding of new information.
Skills Targeted:
Critical thinking, Creativity, Study Skills
Traditional instruction is focused on getting information into students’ brains. Compelling research reveals that pulling information out of the brain enhances learning. Learn how to incorporate retrieval practice into your teaching.
Skills Targeted:
Meta-memory; study skills; accumulating knowledge; mastery; critical thinking, creativity and transfer
Teaching metacognitive reflection is an effective strategy to accelerate student achievement. Learn how to provide students with practical strategies that foster metacognitive awareness and create the foundation for learning independently, effectively and efficiently.
Skills Targeted:
Reflection; self-regulation; decision-making; responsibility, problem solving; self-directed learning
Research suggests effective feedback, formative assessments and peer-based learning are among the most effective ways a student can learn information. Learn how to integrate and apply these concepts into your classroom.
Skills Targeted:
Self-management skills; goal setting; collaboration; deliberate practice; resilience.
Learn how to foster positive emotions and behaviors that increase student engagement, effort and learning outcomes. Develop a better understanding of the interdependencies between cognition, emotion and behaviors to better support your students.
Skills Targeted:
Emotional regulation; growth mindset; resilience; perseverance
Student engagement often decreases with every year of schooling. Yet, student learning requires their engagement and motivation. Learn what research reveals about the most effective ways for teachers to foster student motivation and engagement in the classroom.
Skills Targeted:
Class participation; task completion; meeting deadlines; self-starting, intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation; learning with purpose and for transfer
Learning is a cognitive process. Every classroom is cognitively diverse. Learn how to associate learning difficulties to cognitive skills as well as refine your approach to how you teach through appropriate strategies to support their areas of difficulty.
Skills Targeted:
Effective personalization and differentiation; Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Associate Director, Institute of Positive Education at Geelong Grammar School, Australia
Our programs incorporate the scientific principles of human learning into our instructional design. Learning is active, engaging, collaborative, and application-based. Invigorate your lesson planning with science-based tools that will enable your students to master what you teach.
Program Leaders are assigned to support your learning journey. They monitor the Program and respond to your questions. You can also contact your Program Leader for on-demand support.
Priming quizzes and open-ended interrogatories are used to get learners to think about the subject matter they are about to learn.
To foster durable, flexible, and enduring learning, we apply retrieval strategies throughout the program, including elaboration, spacing, self-testing, and interleaving.
Video lessons are delivered by 12+ expert educators, and leading researchers experienced in the translation of research on the science of learning into classroom application.
Takeaway posters are provided throughout the modules to guide the effective implementation of the concepts covered.
Learners receive and provide peers with anonymized feedback on lesson plan application assignments for deeper learning.
Modules include Discussion Forums to share ideas, collaborate, and provide and receive valuable peer feedback. Program Leaders are also constantly available seek clarity or ask a question on any topic throughout the learning journey.
Program alumni (Science of Learning Practitioners) can join an online platform to share resources and strategies for ongoing application of concepts and guidance.
Under the guidance of the Program Leader, educators apply academic research to their specific student population and subject matter during live, virtual training sessions.
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