Learning is a complex interaction of multiple factors, which teachers must understand to be successful.
In this presentation, Dr. Steven Chew will describe a research-based conceptual framework of cognitive challenges that teachers and students must negotiate for students to learn. It consists of nine interacting cognitive challenges:
- Student mental mindset.
- Metacognition and self-regulation.
- Student fear and mistrust.
- Prior knowledge.
- Misconceptions.
- Ineffective learning strategies.
- Transfer of learning.
- Constraints of selective attention.
- Constraints of mental effort and working memory.
After describing the challenges, Chew will recommend possible ways of addressing each one as part of the framework. This can guide the design, implementation and troubleshooting of teaching practice.
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About the Speaker
Stephen L. Chew is a professor of Psychology at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. Trained as a cognitive psychologist, one of his primary research interests is the cognitive basis of effective teaching and learning. Chew works to translate cognitive research for teachers and students. He developed a research-based framework of cognitive challenges that teachers must address to promote student learning.
In 2011, he created a series of groundbreaking YouTube videos on how to study effectively that have received millions of views and are in wide use at educational institutions around the world. Chew is the recipient of multiple national awards for his teaching and research, including being named the 2011 U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and receiving the award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training from the American Psychological Association in 2022. Chew serves as the chair of the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology.
