NTG Track 3: Pedagogy & Assessment

Neuroteach Global Track 3

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

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.