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IlluminatED Trainers’ Toolkit for Teacher Workshops
Overview
IlluminatED Trainers’ Toolkit for Teacher Workshops is a resource kit for organising continuing professional development workshops for school educators that introduce educators to the Science of Learning and provides them with tips on how to align their teaching practices with the science on how student learning happens.
The main sections of the toolkit are:
- Two continuing professional development workshops for school education teachers
- A Facilitator’s Guide:
Introduction
IlluminatED Trainers’ Toolkit for Teacher Workshops is a resource kit for organising continuing professional development workshops for school educators that introduce educators to the Science of Learning and provides them with tips on how to align their teaching practices with the science on how student learning happens.
Whether you are an educational trainer, school teacher, or researcher, the toolkit has been built to support your delivery of the workshops. The content is geared toward secondary school teachers but is also useful for primary school teachers, and educators at vocational, higher education, and professional institutions.
The main sections of the toolkit are:
- Two continuing professional development workshops for school education teachers
- Workshop A: A Science of Learning Primer for Educators – The cognitive processes underlying student learning
- Workshop B: Designing Learning with the Science of Learning – Cognitive principles applied to the design of learning’
- A Facilitator’s Guide:
- Slides: Google Slides and PowerPoint files for the workshops.
- Student activity sheets: paper-based worksheets for workshop participants
- Script: An example script to guide explanation of the slides
- Activity materials: Spaced learning activity materials, group activity sheets
- Questionnaires: pre- and post- knowledge measures and workshop quality evaluations
- Poster/abstract: promotional materials for the workshops
- Attendance sheets & Certificates: templates for attendance and completion certificates
- Venue requirements: Letter to venue for required equipment and ideal room and seating arrangements
- Resources: articles, references related to the toolkit content
How was the IlluminatED Trainers’ Toolkit developed?
The initial workshop content is based on multi-disciplinary research in cognitive neuroscience and was evaluated by domain experts to ensure its quality. The content of the workshops was tested and validated in teacher pilot workshops that were delivered in Finland, Portugal, Spain, Greece, and Egypt. Nine sets of pilots were held with over 400 participants from the start of 2018 to the middle of 2019. The holding of pilots allowed the project team to collect direct and continuous feedback from experts (cognitive neuroscience: Cicero Learning, University of Helsinki; and for teacher development Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona and the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki); and from both in-service and pre-service educators.
Key contributors
- Marc Beardsley, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona:
Content creation, Learning design, Pilot lead (Spain) - Mari Tervaniemi, CICERO Learning, University of Helsinki:
Content validation, Pilot lead (Finland) - Tanja Linnavalli, CICERO Learning, University of Helsinki::
Content validation, Pilot lead, Translations (Finland) - Davinia Hernández-Leo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona:
Pilot lead, Translations (Spain) - Judit Martìnez Moreno, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona:
Pilot lead, Translations (Spain) - Ana Barroca, Advancis:
Pilot lead, translations (Portugal) - Ana Silveira, Advancis:
Pilot lead, translations (Portugal) - Dr Tharrenos Bratitsis, University of Western Macedonia:
Pilot lead, Translations (Greece) - Michalis Ioannou, University of Western Macedonia:
Pilot lead, Translations (Greece)
About the project Illuminated
IlluminatED: illuminating effective teaching strategies with the science of learning.
Project IlluminatED (PROJ: 2017-1-ES01-KA201-038220) is a project funded by the ERASMUS+ Programme that strives to empower school education teachers with cognitive neuroscience informed practices in an effort to facilitate more durable student learning. A key output of the project is continuing professional development workshops for school educators that introduce educators to the Science of Learning and provides them with tips on how to align their teaching practices with the science on how student learning happens.
The project brings together experts in education technology, teacher development and cognitive neuroscience and runs from December 2017 to June 2020. The IlluminatED partnership is led by Universitat Pompeu Fabra and comprises 6 institutions: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain); CICERO Learning (www.cicero.fi), University of Helsinki (Finland); Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (Finland); University of Western Macedonia (Greece); and Advancis Business Services and Boon (Portugal).
IlluminatED key objectives are:
- to support the improvement in quality of teaching and learning in school education,
- to foster collaboration among teachers,
- to facilitate the use of pedagogy matching technology,
- to contribute to the formation of professional expertise in teaching and learning.
More about IlluminatED can be found on the official website and Facebook page: