The Learning Blueprint

Description

How might current scientific understandings of how learning takes place inform the design of effective teaching and learning?

In 2022, AISWA presents the Learning Blueprint. This project provides schools with an opportunity to connect with the latest, powerful research in how we best learn that will assist teachers and leaders to amplify learning in their schools. Throughout the project, schools will be inspired to reflect on current practice and explore next steps armed with new insights about learning.

Who is this project for?

Participants will be encouraged to engage in ongoing school-based action research and micro-projects that can be connected to a range of strategic directions in a school. Support for this work from initiation to implementation and evaluation will be provided.

What content will be addressed?

Content will include:

• foundations of thinking and principles of human learning
• the learning trajectory – surface, deep and transfer
• assessment and feedback for deep learning
• cognitive load theory, memory, retrieval, spaced and interleaving practice, and
• leading learning for impact.

What is the commitment from participants and mode of learning?

The project will be facilitated over 5 online sessions.

Schools will be invited to opt-in to short individual online school sessions, at various stages of the program.

Participation in all sessions is essential to maximise learning.

Cost

$750 per participant OR $1,000 per school (for up to 4 participants)

Presenter

Jared Cooney-Horvath (PhD, Med) is a neuroscientist, educator, and author of Stop Talking, Start Influencing, 12 Insights from Brain Science to Make Your Message Stick, and 10 Things Schools Get Wrong. He has worked at Harvard University and Medical School, the University of Melbourne and over 150 schools internationally. He currently serves as Director of LME Global.

Check out this video from Jared outlining the project.