
Neuroteach Global Track 2
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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”