Maximising Knowledge Gains

Browse our ever-growing library of online CPD content for teachers and schools, including pedagogy and classroom strategies for maximising knowledge gains, developing literacy, assessment, behaviour for learning, pastoral support and care, leadership development, SEND and many more. New modules are added all the time. If you would like to suggest a topic we should cover, please get in touch.

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How do pupils learn?

Providing an insight into the processes involved for pupils to learn new things. Particularly suitable for associate teachers / TA's.

Approx 20 mins of video

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knowledge, associate teachers, new modules

Strategies and Approaches to Support EAL Learners in the Curriculum

Practical strategies and approaches to help EAL learners access your curriculum.

Approx 25 mins of video
Activities & Reading

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literacy, knowledge

Phonics – The Key to Speaking Spanish

The theory and practice of phonics in the Spanish language classroom.

Approx 40 mins of video
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literacy, knowledge

Scaffolding Learning: How to put it up and when to take it down…

Introducing you to some practical scaffolding strategies - why & how they should be incorporated, and when & how they should be removed.

2x 30 minute videos
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knowledge, featured

Curriculum Design and Delivery: Implications of Cognitive Load and Schema Construction

Focusing on the practical implications that cognitive load and schema construction has on curricular design and lesson delivery.

Approx 30 mins of video
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leadership, knowledge

Cognitive Load Theory and Schema Construction- The Science of Learning

Helping develop a greater understanding of cognitive load and schema construction, and the implications they can have on learning.

Approx 35 mins of video
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leadership, knowledge

Using Technology to Assist with Workload

How a successfully implemented EdTech strategy can help reduce workload and improve efficiency.

1 hr of video
Activities & Reading

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featured, knowledge, staff wellbeing

Scaffolding Secondary Science

Providing support through scaffolding techniques applied to the secondary science classroom

50 mins of video
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knowledge, science

Provocative Thinking - Intelligent Student Grouping

Challenge your thinking about the way students are grouped and the impact this may be having in your school and classrooms

1 hr of video
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knowledge

Practicals in Secondary Science

Making sure practicals in secondary science impact on learning

1 hr of video
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knowledge, science, behaviour

Memory Hooks: Curriculum Design for Long-Term Memory

Securing learning by embedding retrieval hooks in long-term memory

1 hr of videos
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Misconceptions in Secondary Science

Focus on Science: Identifying and addressing common misconceptions in the secondary science curriculum

1 hr of videos
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science, knowledge

The Effective Use of Knowledge Organisers

Focus on: Knowledge Organisers

1 hr of video
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Misconceptions in Learning

The origins of misconceptions, planning to avoid common misconceptions and managing them as they emerge.

1.5hrs of videos
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knowledge

Sequencing Learning: Scaffolding Learning

Using scaffolding in learning sequences to maximise knowledge gains and ensure engagement.

1.5hrs of videos
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knowledge

Sequencing Learning: Retrieval Practice

The role of retrieval practice in reinforcing and building knowledge. Consider why retrieval practice impacts on securing learning, helps prepare for future knowledge gains and consider the importance of planning for knowledge retrieval over time.

1.5hrs of videos
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knowledge

Making Working Memory Work

Working memory and how it influences knowledge gains. Consider the research evidence and explore practical strategies that reduce task distraction and help to avoid cognitive overload.

1.5hrs of videos
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Prior Knowledge

Consider the role of prior knowledge in maximising short and long-term knowledge gains. How activating prior knowledge helps knowledge growth and memory encoding.

1.5hrs of videos
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Supporting EAL Learners in the Classroom

This module explores some of the fundamentals of supporting students who engage in English as an additional language and how EAL learners acquire a second language.

Approx 25 mins of video
Activities & Reading

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coming soon, knowledge

What do we mean when we say we have high expectations for students?

Melanie Saunders, Chief Education Adviser for HPL, explores the difference between words and actions. During this school year, a year like no other, it's a perfect time to reflect on our expectations of students in the year to come.

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Free 30+ min webinar

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knowledge, festival of learning, free modules

Near or far - making every minute count: high quality teacher talk

Within this session we will explore Barak Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction. This will be an opportunity to grapple with the research-based strategies that ‘all teachers should know’.

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Free 30+ min webinar

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The essential elements of planning and teaching effective lessons with Professor Rob Coe

The first few years of teaching can be overwhelming: there is so much to master that seems complex, challenging and important. New teachers have to focus on a small number of things that will have the most impact, but what does research identify as the highest-leverage skills, practices and knowledge?

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knowledge, festival of learning, free modules

How to build motivation for learning with Peps Mccrea

Explore what the science of motivation tells us about what we can do to boost pupil attention and effort in our lessons.

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Free 30+ min webinar

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knowledge, free modules, festival of learning