Toolkit and Workshops for teachers
Six rounds of 2-hour workshops for teachers that are compiled into a toolkit for educational trainers. The workshops are constructed so that teachers can better design learning, evaluate various teaching practices and technological tools, guiding their students towards the selection of effective study strategies.
The output includes:
● Designing workshops for teachers focused on the science of learning theories and how learning and technology can support the designing and facilitating learning activities.
● Transferring academic knowledge from research to schools and teachers, raising the quality of learning and facilitating new hypotheses for researchers from the pilots.
● Demystifying common misconceptions about learning held by teachers.
● Empowering teachers to become experts in the science of learning teaching practice, inspiring/training other teachers.
Evidence-based Teaching Practices Handbook
An open educational resource for educators to support them in improving their teaching practices. The handbook is a collection of case studies, but also includes theoretical portions related to the evidence-based practices.
The output includes:
● Collecting evidence-based teaching practices on the science of learning.
● Identifying technologies to help teachers implement teaching practices on the science of learning.
● Developing case studies of teachers’ implementing these evidence-based teaching practices and a description of the science of learning theories (cognitive science, neuroscience) underlying them.
The objective of the handbook is to empower teachers with knowledge and technological practices created by peers, informed by cognitive neuroscience, on how durable knowledge is constructed so that they can better design learning, evaluate various teaching approaches, and guide their students towards the selection of effective study strategies.
Open Community Website for Teachers
An online community website developed to facilitate the sharing of the learning activities created by participating teachers and their reflections (e.g. case studies). The website also enables other educators to copy, customize, reuse, and share the learning activities originally created by the experts and participating teachers.
The community platform aims to create an online space for the discussion, sharing and learning, related with the project topics, while giving educators the tools and knowledge to enable the implementation of science of learning based practices with their students. Furthermore, this online community will:
● Inspire others educators by sharing real cases on the use of neuroscience based practices for teaching purposes;
● Allow to share real teaching experiences from European educators to engage new educators and nurture peer learning;
● Empower educators by using an innovative technological tool that will ease their daily teaching activity and introduce science of learning based practices, raising the quality of learning and teaching in school education.
Ultimately, the community platform works to empower educators to collaboratively contribute to the professionalization of teaching, by contributing case studies and learning designs involving evidence-based practices, ICT tools – and documenting them with data in a manner that enables other teachers to adapt and reuse the materials.
Research Studies
As many teachers note obstacles preventing them from implementing cognitive science to teaching practices, the research studies aim to expose the current situation in different countries and learning contexts (including those working with disadvantaged students) to better explain the concepts, goals and impacts while sharing good evidence-based practices motivating teachers to implement them.
The output includes:
● New study dedicated to assess the obstacles and enablers implementing science of learning theory in schools.
● Research-based publications on good practices in schools implementing evidence-based teaching practices with technology and based on the science of learning.
● Academic transference of knowledge on cognitive science for school teachers and educational institutions.
● Opportunity for researchers in the project areas to increase the discussion and studies on the transfer of the science of learning for educational contexts.
Peer-reviewed publications will be created under the theme of implementing evidence-based teaching practices with technology and understanding the science of learning theory that underlies these practices.