What is the Illuminated Trainers’ Toolkit?
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Help teachers learn more about the neuroscience of learning! The IlluminatED Trainers’ Toolkit is a resource kit for anyone wanting to deliver the IlluminatED workshops to school education teachers. Whether you are an educational trainer, school teacher, or researcher, the toolkit has been built to support your delivery of the workshops. The content is geared toward secondary school teachers but is also useful for primary school teachers, and educators at vocational, higher education, and professional institutions.
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The main sections of the toolkit are:
Three continuing professional development workshops for school education
teachers, a workshop for students, an eBook, and short video lectures.
teachers, a workshop for students, an eBook, and short video lectures.
Workshop AA Science of Learning Primer for
Educators – The cognitive processes underlying student learning Provides a basic overview of the science of learning in the context of student learning.
Workshop C Teaching with the Science of
Learning 
Introduces basic cognitive principles of learning and provides evidence-based teaching practices that align with the introduced cognitive principles.
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Workshop BDesigning Learning with the Science
of Learning – Cognitive principles applied to the design of learning Highlights common learning design and teaching practices that are consistent with cognitive principles of learning.
Workshop DAn Introduction to the Science of Learning
for Students 
Introduces basic cognitive principles of learning and evidence-based learning practices/strategies. The goal of the workshop is to make students aware of efficient learning strategies and to pique their interest into learning more about learning.
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Physical ActivityPhysical activity promotes brain plasticity. In this video Docent Miriam Nokia from the University of Jyväskylä tells about the connections between cognitive functioning and physical exercise and how to increase the level of neural growth.
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Music TrainingMusical training has been found to enhance not only music-related skills but also some other abilities, as well. In this video, Dr. Vesa Putkinen explains what we know about how musical training impacts learning.
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SleepWe sleep about one third of our lives, and our knowledge about the significance of sleep is constantly increasing. In this video professor Anu-Katriina Pesonen from the University of Helsinki tells about sleep and how the lack of it impacts our performance.
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Transcripts (PDF) of these videos are available in English, Spanish, Greek and Portuguese.
Facilitator's Guide
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Science of Learning Concepts for Teachers
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A booklet prepared for teachers that introduces key concepts from the Science of Learning (i.e. cognitive neuroscience). The digital booklet is the result of a European project. Its content have been compiled from continuing professional development workshops for teachers and features evidence-based teaching practices that align with our knowledge of the Science of Learning.
IlluminatED team wrote the following publications that made use of the Toolkit materials:Beardsley M, Gutierrez N, Hernàndez-Leo D. Examining university students’ motivation, abilities and preferences related to learning to learn. In: ICALT 2020 International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies and Technology-enhanced Learning; 2020 Jul 6-9; Tartu, Estonia. New York: IEEE; 2020. p. 346-8. DOI: 10.1109/ICALT49669.2020.00111
Permanent link: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/45241 Albó L, Beardsley M, Amarasinghe I, Hernández-Leo D. Individual versus computer-supported collaborative self- explanations: how do their writing analytics differ?. In: ICALT 2020 International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies and Technology-enhanced Learning; 2020 Jul 6-9; Tartu, Estonia. New York: IEEE; 2020. p. 132-4. DOI: 10.1109/ICALT49669.2020.00046 Permanent link: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/45238 Casanova, L., Theophilou, E., Beardsley, M., Santos, P. & Hernández-Leo, D. (in press). Distributed retrieval practice enhances primary school students’ retention of computational thinking concepts. In International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age. Beardsley M, Martínez-Moreno J, Hernández-Leo D. Comparing pre- service and in-service teacher perceptions of the science of learning. Paper accepted at: XI Congrés CIDUI 2021; 30 Jun-2 Jul; Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain. Permanent link: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/45481 Beardsley M, Martínez-Moreno J, Hernández-Leo D. Learning to learn: university student perceptions of a science of learning intervention. Paper accepted at: XI Congrés CIDUI 2021; 30 Jun-2 Jul; Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain. Permanent link: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/45484 |
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