Teachers, are you seeking the key to truly impactful teaching? Dive into groundbreaking neuroscience insights with Barbara Oakley’s transformative training. Over two weeks, harness sophisticated techniques that engage students’ pattern recognition and discover the unexpected advantages of diverse learning speeds. Understand both the swiftness of quick learners and the depth of slower ones. Subscribe now and reshape your classroom’s future!

Are you ready to transform your teaching approach and empower your students with innovative techniques? Join us for Uncommon Sense Teaching Training, led by renowned educator and author, Barbara Oakley. This comprehensive training program spans four enlightening sessions over two weeks, each one designed to revolutionize your teaching methods and enhance your understanding of learning.

A growing body of neuroscience research has revealed a number of surprises when it comes to teaching. For example, some forms of teaching can engage students’ sophisticated pattern recognition systems. This type of learning, long dismissed as simple “rote,” can be invaluable in making learning easier, particularly at more advanced levels. Sophisticated drill, as it turns out, leads to skill! And there are further surprises—for example—just because students know how to solve a problem does not necessarily mean that they can—or should—be able to explain it. In fact, forcing some neurally diverse students to explain their reasoning when they can already demonstrate their understanding can actually kill their motivation for deeper learning.

In this workshop, we will explore these and other counterintuitive insights from research that can allow you to intelligently use students’ differing underlying approaches to learning. We will also explore the intimate connection between retrieval practice and the metaphors used in art, music, and poetry. Teachers often place their focus on fast learners—the “smart ones.” But as you will discover, slower learners can have real advantages at a neural level that allow them to be more accurate and flexible in what they learn.