For Teachers

In this free, two-part virtual workshop series facilitated by Monica Crumback, B.A., C-SLDI, you will explore the ways in which adolescent students are impacted by long-term reading struggles. You’ll have the opportunity to interact, ask questions, and learn about instructional practices to help support students.

As the school year winds down into spring and summer break looms on the horizon, we often find ourselves entertaining both our anticipation of the future and our reflections on the past year. It’s a perfect time to engage our students in some of that reflective work as well.

One of the most critical considerations we can take as educators is how to work with our students’ brains instead of against them. Cognitive Load Theory, or CLT, is based on the work of educational psychologist John Sweller and his colleagues in the 1980s and explores mental effort’s impact on learning. Learners struggle when information overload clogs their working memory.