NTG Track 2: Curriculum Design

Neuroteach Global Track 2

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”

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.