Jennifer Gonzalez – 4 Laws of Learning

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Jennifer Gonzalez – 4 Laws of Learning

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What really moves the needle on learning?
In education, new ideas, tools, and strategies are coming at you all the time. On top of that, changing circumstances compel you to make adjustments to the way you normally do things.
With all of this spinning around you, it can be hard to find a clear path. What you need is a compass, a set of principles you can return to again and again when you start to feel like you’re losing your way.
This mini-course is that compass: A set of four “laws” for planning instruction. Just instruction. Yes, many other factors influence the quality of a student’s education, but when it comes to instructional planning—what you do in that 45- to 90-minute block of time that’s set aside for actual pedagogy—following these principles produces the most powerful learning:

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1. Keep the GPS on. Use best practices for learning goals, success criteria, formative assessment, and feedback to make sure students always know where they’re headed and what they have to do to get there.
2. Classify, connect, and compare. Make the most of your students’ natural tendency to sort information into categories.
3. To learn, we need to churn. Always provide opportunities for students to actively process the knowledge and skills they’re learning.
4. Better to retrieve than receive. Apply the science of retrieval practice to help students store their knowledge in long-term memory.

What’s Included
Inside this self-paced course you’ll find four modules, one for each law. Each module contains the following materials:
Videos: Each module is taught through videos that introduce the law, the research behind it, specific strategies you can use to implement it in the classroom, and how you can make it work if you’re teaching remotely. All videos are close-captioned.
Guided Notes: To keep you actively engaged, complete these printable notes as you follow along with the videos.
Module Quizzes: At the end of each module you’ll take a short quiz to check your understanding.

Reflection: Each module ends with an opportunity for you to reflect on how well you are currently applying this law and how you can improve in that area.
Summary Notes: this 22-page PDF summarizes all the key points from the videos, plus a full bibliography containing references for all the research behind the laws. This will allow you to quickly reference the concepts you learned in the course.

With this mini-course in your back pocket, you’ll have a greater sense of confidence when planning your lessons. New ideas, tools, and programs will still come along, and your teaching situation can change at any moment, but anytime you need to get re-centered, anytime you need a refresher on what makes for a solid learning experience, you can always return to these four laws.

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