A selection of webinars produced by experienced mental health trainers at Charlie Waller Memorial Trust aimed at school staff and young people. Within the sessions trainers explore strategies for maintaining positive mental health, paying attention to our own wellbeing and supporting those around us.

Most schools are working on curriculum design and many use Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction as a reference point to inform their work on teaching and learning. This session examines the way they link, focusing on sequencing concepts in small steps, using a range of examples from different subject areas

Our highest hope for schooling is teaching students to think critically; we don’t want them just to learn factual content, we want them to evaluate and integrate what they read and learn. That’s more challenging in the Internet era, with tidal waves of accurate and inaccurate information; how much the more so today, with so many students working independently. In this talk Daniel will explain, from a cognitive perspective, the difficulty of getting students to evaluate information and suggests curricular and instructional strategies to address these difficulties.

In this session, Adam will outline major findings from cognitive science including the Multimedia Effect, Redundancy and Split Attention – empirical findings which can be placed within a framework called Dual Coding Theory. Dual Coding has become an incredibly popular tool for teachers, and Adam will show which strands of the Theory are most helpful to most teachers most of the time.

Learn how to use Google tools to their full potential.

”Memory is important to exactly the types of critical thinking skills we want in our students… These are NOT independent skills!” Daniel T. Willingham

The blog from Alex Quigley, blogger and the author of ‘Closing the Reading Gap’, ‘Closing the Writing Gap’, and ‘The Confident Teacher.’

The work of social and behavioral scientists is crucial in helping to dismantle mechanisms of discrimination, oppression, and violence and create a radically improved society. Here you’ll find a range of resources based on social and behavioral science for researchers, instructors, students, policymakers—as well as the general public— to help you educate, inform, research and learn.

The purpose of this blog written by Durrington Research School Team is to find and share the effective and evidence-informed practice that exists within our own school and others – the bright spots…