Pedagogy & Assessment


Credential Verification
Issue date: October 30, 2024
ID: 4e63ea9e-836e-4951-a1a8-56f05bad7315
Issued by
The Center for Transformative Teaching & Learning (CTTL)
The CTTL is the leading pre-collegiate, school-based research center in the United States that designs and delivers professional learning programming centered in Mind, Brain, and Education (MBE) science to partner schools around the world.
Type
Course
Level
Foundational
Format
Online
Duration
8 hours
Description
The three Neuroteach Global micro-courses included in Track 3 are Learning Made Memorable, The Engaged Brain, and Feedback Loops. By completing these three micro-courses, learners are prepared to:
• Identify strategies to create usable, flexible and durable knowledge
• Design assignments with elements of retrieval practice, spaced practice and interleaving
• Use formative assessments to gain insight into students’ knowledge and aptitude
• Maintain awareness of cognitive load and the limitations of active working memory in lesson and unit planning
• Design classes to incentivize thinking hard
• Use multiple modalities for teaching and assessment
• Apply novelty, relevance, and choice to increase student engagement
• Explain the benefit of struggling during the learning process, and design lessons where students make and learn from mistakes
• Articulate the difference between formative assessment and summative assessment
• Be able to give high-quality feedback
• Design opportunities for students to act on feedback soon after receiving it
• Understand the differences between feedback given at the start of the year versus the end of the year