Curriculum Design
Credential Verification
Issue date: November 7, 2024
ID: 838ff90c-d2e2-4509-a12d-c8a246558558
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 2 are Planning for Forgetting, Practice Made Perfect, and Building for Every Brain. By completing these three micro-courses, learners are prepared to:
• Describe the relationship between working memory and long-term memory
• Design your curriculum to teach study strategies alongside content
• Apply retrieval practice, spacing, and interleaving in curriculum design
• Balance direct instruction and assigned projects to build knowledge that is durable, usable, and flexible
• Explain why quality of homework is more impactful than the quantity of homework
• Design high-quality homework
• Reduce cognitive load for students when they are away from the classroom setting
• Make homework a time for independent practice and mistake-making
• Understand the importance of designing curriculum for learning variability
• Identify core competencies in advance, and have scaffolds prepared to help students with them
• Be prepared to choose teaching modalities based on content, not on perceived “learning styles”