Teaching and Learning
Teach For Long Term Learning
Tell the difference between pupils doing well in a lesson and pupils actually learning, and plan for the kind that lasts.
- 44 minutes
- 7 modules
- 0.5 CPD hours
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Tell a good lesson performance apart from learning that lasts
- Explain how new information gets from working memory into long-term memory
- Plan lessons around three steps to long-term learning
- Build the routines expert teachers run without thinking
- Set work hard enough that pupils have to struggle a little
About this course
A class can nail a task on Tuesday and have lost it by the following week. What they showed you was performance. Learning is what's still there weeks later, when pupils can use it somewhere new, and while it's happening it usually looks slower and messier.
Planning for the second kind starts here. You'll get a working definition of learning you can teach to, and a simple picture of how memory works: a lorry, a holding bay and a warehouse. From there comes a three-step approach to long-term learning that fits any lesson plan. There's a set of habits from research into expert teachers too, each with practical tips for building it.
It works as individual CPD, or as the starting point for a whole-school INSET on how pupils learn.
- For early career teachers and teachers. Post-16, primary and secondary.
7 modules
Open in order
- 3 min
Introduction
- 14 min
Why teachers and teaching quality matter
- 9 min
The habits of great teachers
- 6 min
The learning process
- 4 min
Performance versus learning
- 11 min
Three steps to long-term learning
- 1 min
Wrap up