Today’s teachers must be increasingly adept at capturing students’ attention at the start of a lesson or unit of study, breaking through the myriad other things churning through students’ minds in any given moment, and then generating students’ authentic interest in learning more. These are the important initial phases of The McREL Institute’s Six-Phase Model of Student Learning based on cognitive science.
Join expert facilitators from McREL for this 2-day professional learning session to learn practical strategies from The New Classroom Instruction That Works for designing and delivering lessons and units of study that will spark student curiosity and sustain their motivation to learn.
You’ll explore:
- What brain science tells us about what it takes to grab and hold our mental attention in a distracted world.
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How and when to use these specific instructional strategies aligned to this phase of learning:
- Cognitive Interest Cues
- Student Goal Setting & Monitoring
You’ll leave the session with a toolkit of practical instructional strategies and resources you can use right away in your classroom.