Implementation Case Study: Harbour Primary & Nursery School, East Sussex
Reflections from a school who attended one of our training programmes this year
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On Friday Andy Tharby and Chris Runeckles from The Durrington Research School, led a session at our school INSET day. They were discussing the work of The Learning Scientists who are a group of cognitive psychological scientists, based in the USA, who focus on the science of learning. In particular, they focus on six effective study and teaching strategies that are supported by research evidence.
This is a fantastic example of ‘research mobilisation’ i.e. bringing the research evidence to the classroom so that it has an impact on student learning. We have been using the strategies they suggest explicitly with staff and students for a couple of years here at Durrington. This was an opportunity for Chris and Andy to focus on some of the misconceptions around each of these strategies and also to discuss how they can be implemented in a pragmatic way by teachers and students.
Rather than overload teachers, here a few simple things they can put in place to bring these strategies into their classroom practice.
Retrieval Practice
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Spaced Practice
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Interleaving
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Elaboration
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Concrete examples
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Dual Coding
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Visit ‘The Learning Scientists’ website for more information about their work in this area. The site also contains a wealth of resources on this six strategies including posters, videos and powerpoint presentations – all of which are free.
If you are interested in finding out more about how you can use ideas like this from cognitive science, to inform and develop your teaching and curriculum planning, you might be interested in our ‘Improving memory for success in terminal GCSE courses’ training programme – details and booking information here.
You can also email us with enquiries regarding leading INSET in your school.
Reflections from a school who attended one of our training programmes this year
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