You might be wondering what a workshop about improving student learning has to do with a comic science fiction book that was published in 1979. The truth is - exploration about how the brain learns does feel a little like science fiction. And while cognitive neuroscientists have discovered a great many things about learning in the past twenty years, that information seems to be lost in outer space and is not making its way into our classrooms. Until now.
Our destination is a classroom where students learn the important stuff and then recall it when needed. We will get there by hitchhiking on evidence-based strategies that help the brain remember what we teach as we explore the importance of retrieval, spacing, generation and differentiation in classroom instruction.
It's not rocket science - it's unforgettable learning!