Rosenshine’s principles
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Opportunity #7 - Use Rosenshine’s principles to improve teaching and learning
This training can be delivered as a package (6 hours) or as individual components
Bridge the gap between Rosenshine’s 10 principles of instruction and the cognitive science research that underpins them.
Opportunity #7a - Introduction to cognitive science and learning theory
Audience – EYFS, primary and secondary
Time - 1.5 hours approximately
Explore the ‘why’ that sits behind effective teaching and learning, including the capacity and limitations of different types of memory, the roles they play in learning and how the various areas of cognitive science can help us to understand these better.
Discover the importance of cognitive load theory and how to mitigate cognitive overload, learn how dual coding theory can help both staff and pupils overcome limitations.
Opportunity #7b - Explicit instruction and
Rosenshine’s principles of instruction
Audience – EYFS, primary and secondary
Time - 3 x 1 hour
Discover the small changes that staff can make to their everyday practice in order to maximise learning, highlighting the solid evidence base behind their effectiveness.
Building on a secure understanding of cognitive science, this sequence of 3 short sessions, structured around Barak Rosenshine’s ten Principles of Instruction, will demystify the role of explicit instruction in learning and aim to tackle any misconceptions around the approach.
Opportunity #7c - Effective questioning strategies
Audience – EYFS, primary and secondary
Time - 1.5 hours approximately
Examine the impact of effective questioning on formative assessment and how careful use can ensure all pupils have opportunities to respond.
Using Rosenshine’s recommendations around questioning as a starting point, this session will explore the role of various questioning techniques, the key research that sits behind them and the impact they can have on learning.
Through agreement with school leaders, various strategies will include cold calling and ‘No Opt-Out’.
‘Great training. It’s not often we have time to reflect on our own
pedagogy. I will be asking Gareth to return to school for a follow up session to observe what we have learned.’
Headteacher, Bailey Green Primary with Bailey’s Butterflies