Whether your school needs professional learning services across all Key Learning Areas or for a specific subject, year group or topic area, IDEALearning can tailor a service to suit your teachers and your students.
IDEALearning connects a team of highly skilled, experienced, Australian teaching and leadership experts from a wide range of subject areas with leading international academic research groups and technology service providers.
From Preschool to the HSC, we tailor each professional learning service to the needs of your school.
2017 Course List
1. Addressing the Problem of Math Anxiety to Improve Student Learning
"Math Anxiety” is a phenomenon that has been recently featured in research. This course looks at how maths anxiety affects working memory in the brain and what teachers can do about it...
Affective Neuroscience and the Classroom – Emotional Thought and Learning
How can current neuroscience research be applied to enhance...
Baby Talk – Developing Language Acquisition and Attachment in Babies
This course outlines the impact of social media on the brain and the changes...
Broken Hearts – Identifying and Reporting Child Abuse
This course provides teachers with a background into some sobering statistics around the prevalence of...
Challenging Underperfoming Gifted and Talented Students to Work Hard
As many teachers (and parents) are well aware, Gifted and Talented Students are not necessarily always good students. Often we see the opposite.
Creativity and the Brain – Learning to Create
Creativity is a complex concept. Researchers in neuroscience and psychology, not to mention philosophy struggle to define creativity let alone truly understand it...
Designing Learning Resources To Reduce Cognitive Load in Mathematics
Learn to create mathematics resources that reduce the level of difficulty the brain experiences when teaching new concepts to your students.
Improving Student Writing Outcomes through the use of Drama and Peer Discussion
Teachers will be provided with demonstration, knowledge and resources of process drama techniques and discussion techniques....
Learning to Learn: An Introduction to Brain Plasticity
This course provides teachers with an introduction to brain plasticity. Teachers will have an opportunity...
Math Learning Journals – Engaging Students In Learning, Feedback And Assessment
The course provides teachers with skills and tools to support their teaching of...
Memory and the Brain – Is Rote Learning Always Bad?
This course integrates current research on how the brain constructs memory to improve learning in students of all abilities...
Mobile Technologies And The Brain
Our students are digital natives. But do we really know what effect the use of mobile devices and screen-time has on their brains
Neuromyths
Left vs Right Brained? What is your Learning Style? Explore these and other "Neuromyths" ...
