Uncommon Sense Teaching 

1: The Essence of How We Learn

2: Learn It, Link It

3: How Students Fool Themselves into Thinking They?re Learning

4: Teaching Inclusively?The Importance of Working Memory Capacity

5: Tricks for Expanding Working Memory (Hint?It Involves Long-Term Memory)

6: Inclusivity, Differentiation, and Scaffolding

7: Practical Insights Related to Working Memory

8: What Is Active Learning?

9: Summary Week 1

Uncommon Sense Teaching Course Syllabus

Guidance in Applying for Continuing Education or Professional Development Credit

The Fundamentals of Learning and Inclusive Teaching

Diving into the Practicalities of Teaching and Learning Inclusively

The Fundamentals of Learning and Inclusive Teaching

Teaching and Learning Inclusively & Other Week 1 Materials

1: Introduction to the Declarative Learning System (Hip Hip, Hooray!)

2: I Do Declare, There?s a Hip Way to Get Info into Long-Term Memory!

3: Concussion Dealt Me a Knockout Blow?The Value of Consolidation

4: The Value of Metaphor

5: Introduction to Procedural Learning

6: Drill to SKILL

7: The Power of Exercise

8: The Vital Importance of Focus

9: Summary Video Week 2: Helping the Brain Build Better Links for Learning

Declarative Learning, Consolidation, and Metaphor

Procedural Learning, Exercise, and Focus

Declarative Learning, Consolidation, and Metaphor

Procedural Learning, Exercise, and Focus & Other Week 2 (& 1) Materials

1: Focused and Diffuse Modes

2: Procrastination and the Pomodoro Technique

3: Diving Deeper into Procrastination

4: Don?t Just Follow Your Passions?Broaden Them!

5: Practice?the Key to Remarkable Changes

6: Motivation, Habit, and Salt

7: Rubrics

8: Helping Students Succeed in Test-Taking

9: Ensuring Equity, Fairness, and Inclusion in Your Testing

10: Week 3 Summary

Procrastination, Practice, and Passion

Fairness for Success, Introduction to Motivation, and (oh no!) Rubrics!

Procrastination, Practice, and Passion

Practice, Passion, and Procrastination & Other Week 3 Materials (with a bit of Week 2 Review!)

1: Children?s Changing Brains

2: When It Comes to Learning, Some Stuff Is Easy and Some Is Hard

3: How Should Teaching Change as Students Grapple with More Difficult Material?

4: Teacher-Directed Instruction Leads to Student-Directed Approaches

5: Driving Home the Main Ideas

6: Summary Video Week 4

7: Wrap Up, Course 1

Insight from Evolution on How Modern Humans Learn

Direct Instruction: A Magic Mixture of Explicit Instruction and Active Learning

Rate this course (and its accompanying book, if you had the chance to read it)

Quiz: Insight from Evolution on How Modern Humans Learn

Final examination