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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Writing With Flair: Fiction

Teaching your pupils to plan and write fiction with flair.

Approx 15 mins of video
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literacy, knowledge

Writing With Flair: Non-Fiction

Teaching your pupils to plan and write with flair.

Approx 15 mins of video
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knowledge, literacy

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

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
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knowledge, literacy

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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knowledge, literacy

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

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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knowledge, leadership, featured

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

Supporting EAL Learners in the Classroom

Supporting EAL students and their acquisition of a second language.

Approx 25 mins of video
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knowledge, featured

Using Technology to Assist with Workload

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

1 hr of video
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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, behaviour, science

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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knowledge

The Characteristics Students Need to Learn in Challenging Times

How can we support the development of characteristics that maintain learning during periods of schooling challenge?

1 hr of videos
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character, knowledge, remote

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

Developing the Characteristics Students Need to Flourish and Succeed

What are the characteristics and competencies that allow students to learn and succeed in an ever-changing global economy and how do we create the opportunities for them to develop?

1.5 hrs of videos
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knowledge, character

The Effective Use of Knowledge Organisers

Focus on: Knowledge Organisers

1 hr of video
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knowledge

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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knowledge

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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knowledge