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This webinar will use Zoom.

This webinar will run from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm ET / 7:00 am - 9:00 am PT on March 1, 2025 for a total of 2 credit hours.

For those who cannot attend the live webinar on March 1, a recording of the webinar will be available for 7 days following the live webinar, beginning the following Monday.
CE credit is only available for live attendance.

Research from cognitive psychology can be used to inform educational practices. In this professional development talk, Dr. Megan Sumeracki will describe three strategies—retrieval practice, spacing, and interleaving—that have robust evidence to support their use in a variety of learning settings, and can be combined to create powerful learning activities. For each strategy, you will learn about evidence supporting its effectiveness, and applications that can be used in a variety of instructional settings. Participants will be given time to ask questions and for brainstorming and planning applications for their own teaching and learning environments. Resources will also be shared for participants to use after the webinar is over for continued development.
 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will be able to:

  • Understand how cognitive science research applies to education
  • Describe three evidence-based learning strategies: retrieval practice, spacing, and interleaving
  • Understand how retrieval practice, spacing, and interleaving can be used together to promote learning
  • Create a concrete plan for implementing these three strategies in their classrooms and schools
  • Implement retrieval practice, spacing, and interleaving with their own learners


WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This seminar is applicable to K-12 general and special education teachers, instructional coaches, and college instructors.

WORKSHOP LEADER
 

SteveMegan Sumeracki, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at Rhode Island College. She is one of the original co-founders of The Learning Scientists and co-author of the award-winning book Understanding How We Learn: A Visual Guide. Megan has delivered talks and workshops both in the U.S. and abroad at scientific conferences and with educators in primary and secondary schools, institutions of higher education, medical schools and teaching hospitals, museums, corporate settings, and the U.S. State Department.