SoL: Developing Sophisticated Learners

Developing Sophisticated Learners

In partnership with the world’s leading experts, COGx bridges the gap between research from learning sciences and classroom application. Our online professional development for educators provide compelling research and insightful application to bolster teaching efficacy and improve your students’ ability to learn.
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Customized Programs for Partner Organizations

This program consists of 12 Modules of self-led asynchronous e-learning, which are complemented with live synchronous group collaboration, assignments and application hours to support educators. We maintain a pace suitable to each partner organization to be in sync with each other to promote meaningful peer discussion and collaboration and to benefit from scheduled office hours.

What Educators Learn

Discover each of our 12 Modules on the Science of Learning

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Who Educators Learn From

Learn from a team of global experts on the Science of Learning

How Educators Learn

Explore how we apply what we teach to how we teach it

What Educators Learn: 12 Modules

Module 01

Developing Sophisticated Learners
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.
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Module 02

Capture Student Attention
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.
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Module 03

Address Processing Speed
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.
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Module 04

Leverage Working Memory
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.
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Module 05

Support Executive Function for All
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.
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Module 06

Teach for Mastery I (Encoding Techniques)
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.
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Module 07

Teach for Mastery II (Retrieval Strategies)
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.
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Module 08

Foster Metacognition
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.
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Module 09

Provide Effective Feedback
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.
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Module 10

Teach for Belonging I (Emotions & Relationships)
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.
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Module 11

Teach for Belonging II (Engagement & Motivation)
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.
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Module 12

Personalize for Cognitive Diversity
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.
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Who Educators Learn From: COGx Academic Partners

Academic Research on Student Learning
"Learning is a scientific process, and for students to learn optimally they must be taught. This is true regardless of cognitive abilities and disposition towards learning."
(Bjork et al., 2013)
"Students often use ineffective techniques such as highlighting and re-reading, with limited success. Such strategies are rooted in the misconception that memory behaves like a tape recorder."
(Bjork & Bjork, 2011)
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How Educators Learn: Research-Informed Instructional Design

We Practice What We Teach

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.

COGx Program Leaders

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 Activities

Priming quizzes and open-ended interrogatories are used to get learners to think about the subject matter they are about to learn.

Retrieval Practice

To foster durable, flexible, and enduring learning, we apply retrieval strategies throughout the program, including elaboration, spacing, self-testing, and interleaving.

Video Micro-Lessons

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.

Classroom Application Guides

Takeaway posters are provided throughout the modules to guide the effective implementation of the concepts covered.

Peer-Based Feedback & Reflection

Learners receive and provide peers with anonymized feedback on lesson plan application assignments for deeper learning.

Discussion Boards

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.

Alumni Practitioner’s Platform

Program alumni (Science of Learning Practitioners) can join an online platform to share resources and strategies for ongoing application of concepts and guidance.

Application Hour

Under the guidance of the Program Leader, educators apply academic research to their specific student population and subject matter during live, virtual training sessions.

What Educator Are Saying

"Graded is using the COGx professional learning resources as we take our deep dive into the science of learning. The rich and thoughtfully developed curriculum is powerful. It is easily accessible for teachers. The translation of the science of learning is essential so that we can make "Monday morning" sense of the work. COGx delivers in every way to this end."
Richard BoernerSuperintendent, Graded School (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
COGx is the finest example I’ve encountered of cutting edge research applied to educational methodology. All educators should be required to learn effective strategies to develop the foundational cognitive skills students need to engage in the critical thinking and creative problem solving that 21st century education demands.
Sara EdwardTeacher with Masters in Education from Johns Hopkins University
“The COGx program on the science of learning allowed me to understand and connect the theory to the actions I needed to take to improve my teaching. COGx expertly combines theoretical understanding with application in a balanced way unlike online courses that are detached from the practice of teaching or advice that is detached from the science and theory. I could not have improved my teaching without both ingredients. I highly recommend this to anyone committed to their students' success.”
Marco GonzalezScience Teacher, San Diego, California
“The information and way in which it is taught is very relevant to me and my students. I particularly liked the way the program used the strategies such as spacing and interleaving allowing me to see the strategies at work and learn by doing.”
Becky StantonTeacher, Boston, Massachussetts
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