Online course
How Teaching and
Learning Happens
This online course equips educators with evidence-based practices and insights from the science of learning. We guide teachers and school leaders through the process of enriching their instructional practices, ensuring that all students benefit from a balanced, informed, and dynamic educational experience.
Expert-led content
Practical application
Dynamic learning experience
Introduction
In today’s rapidly evolving educational landscape, schools are often faced with the daunting challenge of keeping pace with the latest pedagogical strategies while also meeting the diverse needs of their students. Many teachers and school leaders feel they want to engage with research and evidence-based strategies but don’t know where to start. In addition, many professionals have had ineffective professional learning or a structured continious professional development (CPD) program based on neuromyths or unproven methods which can waste valuable time in the classroom.
Based on the award-winning books How Learning Happens and How Teaching Happens, this online training course directly addresses this challenge by equipping educators with evidence-based practices and insights from the science of learning. By embracing our online program and leveraging the science of learning, we guide teachers and school leaders through the process of enriching their instructional practices, ensuring that every student benefits from a balanced, informed, and dynamic educational experience. The training is designed and led by the authors of the books, Dr. Carl Hendrick and Dr. Jim Heal.
“So often I’ve been asked to recommend a starting text for educators interested in the workings of the mind―now I have one. The text Kirschner and Hendrick offer alongside each seminal article does a wonderful job of situating the content in the broader scientific context, and in the classroom.”
– Daniel Willingham, Professor of Psychology and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Virginia, US
“This is a terrific collection of some of thought-provoking and actionable articles about classroom teaching. The selections are sure to inform and challenge readers, and certainly will help them understand teaching better. It is also not farfetched to imagine that critical thinking about these articles will lead to better teaching.”
– David C. Berliner, Regents’ Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University, US
Who will benefit from this course?
Teachers at all levels
Aspiring, novice, experienced, preschool to college
School leaders
Supervising teaching and learning
Teams
Teachers working together at a specific level or within a certain subject area
Schools
Seeking a high-quality professional learning program for faculty-wide learning
The program
What will you get?
Core components overview
- 12 modules consisting of 4 components per module
- 12 modules devided into 3 chapters (A,B,C) with 4 modules per chapter
- Instructional videos on each topic
- Interactive components
- Downloadable materials for schools to use in their own context
Access is available for school teams at €225 per teacher. The minimum number of participants required depends on the country.
One-year unlimited access to all components. See the overview of the core components of the course in our brochure.
Instructional videos
Each component features a video of Carl and Jim explaining the of the core principles of each topic with an examples of how to use this knowledge in practice. The videos that Carl and Jim have created are segmented into shorter parts, focusing on the discussed concepts and principles although exceptions may be made for more in-depth elaboration of concepts or related examples.
Activities and interactive components per section
– Each component includes one or more interactive parts, based on the type of knowledge discussed in each section and its relevance to educators’ practices.
– The course also features a set of retrieval questions related to knowledge previously covered. The selection of these questions is guided by their relevance to connecting the topics addressed in this module.
– Each key concept from the assignments should be shared and discussed with a peer in some form. This peer interaction allows for feedback that can help enhance the effective application of the knowledge.Each component features a video of Carl and Jim explaining the of the core principles of each topic with an examples of how to use this knowledge in practice. The videos that Carl and Jim have created are segmented into shorter parts, focusing on the discussed concepts and principles although exceptions may be made for more in-depth elaboration of concepts or related examples.
Downloadable materials
– A printable conceptual overview of the content to be covered.
– Practical guides.
Beyond the advanced organizer, participants can also download a ‘Knowledge to Practice’ poster. This poster provides a concise summary of the concepts discussed in the module and illustrates each with examples of how they can be applied in daily practice. The intention is for teachers to print this poster and refer to it as they apply these concepts in their own practice or while redesigning instructional materials.
– A list of recommended materials, books, and articles that teachers can utilize for further study or in-depth reading.
Prof dr. Jim Heal
Professor School of Leadership & Sustainability
Dr. Jim Heal is Professor of Evidence-Informed Educational Leadership at Academica University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam. His work seeks to develop expertise in evidence-informed instruction and leadership in K-12 schools, school districts, and higher education institutions around the world. Dr. Heal was a teacher and administrator for over a decade in the UK before moving to the US, where he became Director of Practice at Harvard’s Research Schools International initiative. In his work at Deans for Impact, a US-based non-profit, he increased teacher effectiveness by infusing the science of learning into educator preparation. He earned his doctorate in educational leadership from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is author of three books on education: How Teaching Happens, Mental Models, and Instructional Illusions.
Prof. dr. Carl Hendrick
Professor School of Leadership & Sustainability
Dr. Carl Hendrick works as a professor of Evidence-Informed Learning and Teaching at Academica, where he focuses on bridging the gap between research and practice. He was a secondary English teacher for 18 years in a range of different contexts and he completed his Ph.D. in education at King’s College London. He is a co-author of 2 best-selling and prize-winning books in education: How Learning Happens with Paul Kirschner and How Teaching Happens with Paul Kirschner and Jim Heal.