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Experience the Learning.
Design Your Teaching.
Constructing any building is a multi-process venture—laying a
foundation, forming a framework, raising a roof, building walls.
Each process is important; if one is omitted or not executed
well, the building will not serve its intended purpose. Learning
occurs in much the same way.
How the Brain Learns
Several processes are required
to construct understanding.
- Experience :: The brain takes in raw data through the senses.
- Comprehension :: The brain identifies and organizes this data to
build knowledge.
- Elaboration :: The brain recognizes patterns in the sorted data and
recalls
experiences with similar patterns; the new data merges with prior
experiences to build understanding.
- Application :: The brain seeks a use for the new understanding and
tries applying it in a supportive context, like a classroom.
- Intention :: The brain looks for real-world applications of deep
understandings.
Just as buildings differ in use and structure, the material students
learn in school differs in use and structure. Skills (e.g., throwing
a ball) require students to replicate a sequence of actions to
accomplish some purpose; content (e.g., the Roman Empire) requires
students to construct understanding of related concepts; a combination
of both (e.g., a word problem solved by addition) requires students
to recognize conceptual
patterns that call for application of related skills.
The material type influences the processes required for learning.
Design instruction for how the brain learns.
Architecture of Learning™ takes the mystery out of designing
effective instruction for each material type by training teachers
to use instructional planning grids called Blueprints. With each
blueprint, teachers can intentionally engage appropriate processes
for students to build knowledge and understandings for critical
thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making that extends well
beyond the classroom.
Designed on these Blueprints, Architecture of Learning™ training
is a three-day professional development event for educators of all grades and
disciplines.
Experience the learning, and you will never teach the same way again.
To schedule or attend a Clerestory Learning Professional Development
Event, complete the Training Registration
Form and we’ll contact you within
a week to discuss your training.
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