How Learning Works: A Playbook

How Learning Works: A Playbook helps educators create learning experiences that better align with how learning works by unpacking the science of how students learn and translating that knowledge into promising principles or practices. It provides prompts, tools, practice exercises, and discussion strategies to help teachers describe what is meant by learning in their local context, adapt promising principles and practices to meet the specific needs of their students, translate research on learning into learning strategies that accelerate learning and build students' capacity to take ownership of their own learning, and generate and gather evidence of impact by engaging students in reciprocal teaching and effective feedback on learning.

Format: Spiral bound
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 14 February 2022
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc

The content, skills, and understandings that students need to acquire today are as diverse, complex, and multidimensional as the students themselves. As educators, how can we best create learning experiences that truly enable students to learn?

How Learning Works: A Playbook is a valuable resource that unpacks the science of how students learn and translates that knowledge into promising principles and practices that can be implemented in the classroom or utilized by students on their learning journey. Designed to help educators create learning experiences that better align with how learning works, each module in this playbook is grounded in research and features prompts, tools, practice exercises, and discussion strategies that help teachers to:

Describe what is meant by learning in the local context of your classroom, including identifying any barriers to learning.

Adapt promising principles and practices to meet the specific needs of your students, particularly regarding motivation, attention, encoding, retrieval, practice, cognitive load and memory, productive struggle, and feedback.

Translate research on learning into learning strategies that accelerate learning and build students' capacity to take ownership of their own learning, such as summarizing, spaced practice, interleaved practice, elaborate interrogation, and transfer strategies.

Generate and gather evidence of impact by engaging students in reciprocal teaching and effective feedback on learning.

This playbook is rich with resources that support the process of parlaying scientific findings into classroom practice, offering all the moves teachers need to design learning experiences that work for all students!

Weight: 678g
Dimension: 231 x 282 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781071856635