Science of Learning: From Principles to Practice Webinar Series (P) (PP)

Science of Learning: From Principles to Practice Webinar Series (P) (PP) 

DATE:       Wednesday, 7th, 14th & 21st January 2026
TIME:        7.00pm - 8.30pm
VENUE:    Online Via Zoom

Target Audience: Suitable for Primary and Post Primary Teachers

This practical three-part series translates robust cognitive science into everyday classroom moves—and then into whole-school practice. We start with how learning actually works (and common neuromyths), move to high-leverage strategies teachers can use tomorrow, and finish with leadership, implementation, metacognition, motivation, and student study skills.

Session 1: How Learning Happens: Working Memory, CLT, and Neuromyths — A clear tour of how memory works, why some popular ideas don’t, and what this means for everyday teaching.

Session 2: Applying the Science of Learning — Concrete routines for retrieval, spacing, interleaving, worked examples, and responsive teaching you can use tomorrow.

Session 3: Implementing & Leading — How to embed the science of learning across a school, with practical tools for metacognition, motivation, and student study skills.

Outcomes:

Understand the foundations of how learning happens. Explain how learning moves from working memory to long-term memory and why this matters for planning and instruction.

Apply retrieval, spacing, interleaving, and responsive teaching to everyday lessons.

Design tasks/slides that minimise split attention and extraneous cognitive load.

Use fast, high-validity checks for understanding to adapt teaching in the moment.

Lead implementation so practices stick across a school, including metacognition, motivation, and study skills.

Bio of Presenter: Carl Hendrick



Dr Carl Hendrick is an internationally recognised expert on the science of learning. Originally from Dublin, he began his career as an English teacher in an inner-city London state school before becoming Head of Learning and Research at Wellington College. He is currently Professor of Learning Sciences at Academica University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam and serves on the UNESCO IBE Science of Learning Advisory Board.

Carl is the author of several books, including the award-winning How Learning Happens (with Paul Kirschner), and holds a PhD in Education from King’s College London.