Terry Byers is currently the Director of the Centenary Library and Innovation in Learning at the Anglican Church Grammar School (Churchie) in Brisbane, Queensland. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Queensland in the School of Education and is currently a Unit Coordinator in the Masters ofEducation program. Terry oversees the strategic direction of the Centenary Library and is the co-director of the Churchie Research Centre
Vicky Leighton is the Director of Staff Development and Research at the Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane, vice-chair for The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize in Australia and PhD student at the University of Queensland. Vicky has a background in Art Theory, Fine Art and Architecture, and a previous career (before teaching) in the Heritage industry in the UK. She currently teaches Theory of Knowledge, A Learner’s Toolkit and Visual Art and is co-director of the Churchie Research Centre
Tom Perry researches and teaches at the University of Warwick, UK, with a focus on research methods and evidence-informed policy and practice and he led the recent Cognitive Science in the Classroom Review for the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) and has researched topics including school progress measures, educational disadvantage and inequalities, school mobility, and effective professional development. Tom works with teachers, school leaders and researchers to better understand how we can generate, exchange and use evidence to improve education.
In this episode we’re discussing a really exciting project lead by this team, and others, called A Learner’s Toolkit. A Learner’s Toolkit, a Science of Learning program focused on equipping secondary schools with tools and strategies to become life-long learners. Ever since I found out about the power of spacing, retrieval, interleaving, dual coding, and many other learning strategies from the science of learning, I’ve started to implement these in my own classroom. In addition, I have tried to teach my students about these strategies so that they can use them themselves and within their own independent study. There’s nothing more empowering than when a student realises that they can take charge of their own learning and that there are evidenced-based strategies that can save them time with their study, and increase their achievement and understanding too.
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Links/resources mentioned in the show
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- A Learner's Toolkit
- Peps McCrea and Sarah Cottingham from Ambition Institute
- EEF evidence review – ‘Cognitive Science in the Classroom‘
- Efrat Furst’s work on knowledge structures
- Also see Ollie's Books, Cognitive Load Theory in Action and Tools for Teachers
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