Insight, based on the science of learning and reading, encompasses the way we teach in every classroom. This teaching approach empowers all educators to help their students grow in knowledge, wisdom and service.
Our Insight Project has one single objective: to improve the learning achievement of every student in our schools. Decades of research now tells us that we improve student learning by helping teachers become even more effective in their daily teaching practice.
Insight launched in November 2022 and has been embraced by 24 primary schools and seven secondary colleges across Cathollic Education Tasmania. Led by Executive Director, Dr Gerard Gaskin, System Lead: Curriculum and Pedagogy, Jennifer White, and her team of proficient educators, the Insight Project focuses on improving the three key foundations of teaching and learning:
- A comprehensive, knowledge rich Curriculum: that supports student growth in learning, knowing and remembering - every day.
- Cognitive Science (the Science of Learning): Developing our understanding about how people learn; to overcome the limits of working memory in order to maximise student learning and to build long-term memory in all key subjects.
- High impact Pedagogy: Regular and intensive coaching to assist our educators in actively applying the science of learning as we design highly efficient and effective teaching and learning methods in the classroom.
Catholic Education Tasmania is committed to supporting every student to grow in understanding and knowledge. We firmly believe the Insight project will serve the growth of our students as they understand the communal knowledge needed to function and flourish in society and, in turn, build on their prior knowledge to respond in critical and creative ways to real world problems and daily life challenges.
Catholic educators across Tasmania are currently immersed in the study of the science of learning principles and are committed to refining specific high impact teaching practices that will improve learning in every subject at every level, in every CET school.
Insight provides educators with high-quality professional development opportunities through:
- Instructional Leadership: Coaching and mentoring for Principals and Leaders to support planning and implementation.
- High Impact Teaching Practice: Theory, coaching, and resources to embed Science of Learning based teaching practice in all classrooms.
- Literate Learners for Life: Theory, coaching, and resources to embed Science of Reading based teaching practice in all classrooms.
Teaching Matters Summit
Building on the huge success of our 2023 and 2024 conferences, the Teaching Matters Science of Learning Summit is back for 2025 and better than ever. Bringing together a host of specialists in Science of Learning best practice teaching, the Teaching Matters Science of Learning National Summit is a multi-day professional learning event where educators from across the nation come together to engage with the theory and practice of science of learning, high impact teaching practice and knowledge rich curriculum.
Inspired by Catholic Education Tasmania’s Bold Goal to be the most improved educational system in Australia, the national summit aims to empower attendees with actionable insights. Our intention in hosting such an event is to empower every participant with the practical tools and evidence-informed pedagogy to invigorate and optimise their own teaching and learning proficiencies within their schools and classrooms. We want to build our nation’s burgeoning collective knowledge and expertise in the explicit pedagogies of the Science of Learning and the Science of Reading.
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