From July 26 - 30, 2021, Learning & the Brain is offering an online Summer Institute.

Perhaps it's time for educators to take the Science of Learning to the next level and create a new "Science of Teaching." Findings from the Science of Learning are not always directly applicable to classroom teaching. So it is often left to educators to derive the promising practices from this promising research, which can have a positive impact in classrooms and teacher’s learning goals. So why not create a "Science of Teaching"?
 
This interactive summer institute will help you take your teaching to that next level by rethinking and redesigning your classroom practice and pedagogy based on these Promising Principles. John Almarode and David Daniel will help you understand how the brain learns and will introduce you to a new Science of Teaching. You will explore such questions as what are those promising principles, where does good practice come from, and how do you design your teaching to include them. They will unpack findings from the Science of Learning, Socio-Emotional Learning, and other relevant areas of inquiry with the specific goal of developing effective and dynamic teaching that maximizes student impact. Working together you will build a personal model of a teacher, understand the models of the learner, and develop a process for effective practice, as well as the mechanisms to demonstrate their success. Teachers will be coached as partners in designing strategies that work in their own context and generating evidence of their impact through a flexible and practical process -- Creating a true Science of Teaching.
 
Participants are encouraged to bring examples of Promising Principles from the literature as well as interventions, strategies, and practices that they believe work in their own classrooms. This institute is hands-on and is limited to 50 participants..