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A LOAD ON THE MIND A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF COGNITIVE LOAD THEORY
STEVE GARNETT Author, Teacher, Facilitator, Dragonfly Senior Trainer
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remember very clearly what I was thinking when I read a tweet that Professor Dylan Wiliam posted on 26 January 2017, a tweet that made a pretty emphatic claim incidentally!
“I’ve come to the conclusion Sweller’s Cognitive Load Theory is the single most important thing that teachers should know” What I was thinking was quite simple: “I have absolutely no idea what that is!”. I spend my professional life working with teachers on all aspects of trying to improve the learning experience for pupils they teach. Over the last 12-15 years this has extended to over 30 countries around the world. When I count up the number of workshops and whole school/whole staff professional development sessions I have run, the number of teachers I have delivered training to must have extended to over 15,000 quite easily.
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