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We now know more than ever about how pupils learn and remember. Cognitive science gives teachers powerful, proven strategies like retrieval practice, spaced learning, and dual coding. But knowing the theory isn’t the same as using it well. This training turns the research into simple, practical routines your staff can use every day.
Below, we explain what our retrieval practice and cognitive science training involves, and how it helps pupils learn more and remember it for longer.
What Is Retrieval Practice & Cognitive Science Training?
It’s practical, evidence-informed training that helps teachers apply cognitive science in the classroom. We cover how memory works, why retrieval practice is so effective, and how to build low-stakes retrieval, spacing, interleaving, and dual coding into everyday teaching.
We keep it grounded in the work of researchers like Rosenshine, Willingham, and the Learning Scientists, and translate it into routines that fit real lessons and real workloads.
Who Is This Training For?
It’s designed for all education settings: maintained schools, academies, and multi-academy trusts, Alternative Provisions, and SEND Units/Hubs. It works for whole-school INSET, subject teams, or early career teachers building strong habits from the start. Trusts often run it across schools to build a shared teaching and learning approach.
Many schools ask for it when they want a research-informed teaching and learning strategy that actually changes what happens in classrooms.
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What Does the Training Cover?
We shape the content around your priorities. You can book a whole-school INSET, a group session, or focused one-to-one support. Our most common areas include:
- How memory and learning really work
- Retrieval practice: what it is and why it works
- Low-stakes quizzing and retrieval routines
- Spaced and interleaved practice
- Dual coding and reducing cognitive load
- Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction in practice
- Building retrieval into your curriculum
- Avoiding common cognitive science mistakes
How This Training Helps Your School, Academy, Trust, or Alternative Provision
1
Help pupils remember more
Retrieval practice is one of the most powerful tools in teaching. Your pupils remember more and for longer, which shows up in results.
2
Give staff routines, not just theory
We turn research into simple classroom routines. Staff leave knowing exactly what to do on Monday morning.
3
Raise standards across the school
When every teacher uses proven strategies, learning improves everywhere. It lifts outcomes across phases and subjects.
4
Build a shared teaching and learning language
Everyone understands the same principles. It makes coaching, planning, and improvement far easier.
5
Reduce wasted effort
Staff stop using strategies that feel busy but don’t work. They focus on what actually helps pupils learn.
6
Support pupils with SEND
Clear, well-sequenced, low-load teaching helps every learner, especially those who find learning harder.
7
Strengthen your inspection story
You can show a research-informed approach to teaching and learning, with evidence of impact.
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How the Training Works
- 1We talk with you to understand your context, your staff, and what you want to change.
- 2We tailor the content to your setting, your phase, and your improvement priorities.
- 3We model the routines live, so staff see how retrieval and spacing work in a real lesson.
- 4We deliver the training in person or online, in a way that fits your calendar.
- 5We give you practical resources and tools your staff can use straight away.
- 6We follow up to help you embed the learning, so it sticks and changes classroom practice.
What Your Staff Get
Every participant comes away with more than notes. They get:
- Clear, practical strategies they can use in the next lesson
- A shared language and consistent approach across the team
- Ready-to-use resources, tools, and templates
- The confidence to put the training into practice
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Key Features of Our Training
Rooted in the research
We draw on the strongest evidence and translate it into practical classroom routines.
Tailored to your curriculum
We shape the strategies around your subjects, phase, and priorities.
Whole-school, group, or individual
Book an INSET, a subject session, or coaching. We adapt to you.
Why Choose Jarvis Education?
We work only with education settings. We know the research inside out, and we know how to make it work in a busy classroom without adding to workload. Our training helps pupils learn more, with every decision staying focused on children.
Want to know how this training could work for your school? Just get in touch.
Next Steps & How to Get Started
- Speak to one of our experts. We’ll explain how we work, answer your questions, and help you shape the right training for your staff.
- We agree dates and delivery that suit your calendar, in person or online, and confirm everything in writing.
- Contact us today to discuss how we can support your school, academy, trust, and alternative provision.
- We’re ready to help and support you.
Who We Work With
We support settings of every type across England and internationally.
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