Name: Maxed Out Minds: Managing Working Memory for Powerful Learning
Start: 2026-09-19T09:45:00+0200
End: 2026-09-19T10:45:00+0200

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Maxed Out Minds: Managing Working Memory for Powerful Learning

Saturday September 19, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am CEST

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Understanding and Supporting Working Memory in Learning
Working memory is the brain’s mental workspace—the system that temporarily holds and manipulates information during thinking, problem‑solving, and learning. This workshop explores how working memory functions, why it is limited, and how cognitive overload can disrupt students’ ability to process new information and move it into long‑term memory. When working memory becomes overwhelmed, learners struggle to follow directions, complete multistep tasks, or retain new concepts, making instructional design and pacing essential to student success.
Participants will examine the relationship between attention and working memory, including how distractions, stress, and competing stimuli reduce the brain’s capacity to hold information. The session highlights how attention acts as the “gatekeeper” for learning—if attention is lost, working memory cannot engage, and long‑term storage cannot occur.
The workshop provides practical, classroom‑ready strategies to support working memory during lessons. These include chunking information, using visual anchors, modelling thinking steps, reducing unnecessary cognitive load, incorporating retrieval practice, and embedding purposeful brain breaks to reset attention. Educators will learn how to design instruction that aligns with how the brain learns best, ensuring students can process, store, and retrieve information more effectively. Participants leave with tools to create learning environments where working memory thrives and long‑term learning sticks.

Speakers

Deb Lancashire

MYP Teacher / Author, International School of Stuttgart

Deb Lancashire has been a passionate educator for 41 years and a two time teacher of the year. Her experiences include Kindergarten-third grade behaviour disabilities, Learning Support for grades 6-8, Grade 4 classroom teacher, and Grade 6-8 classroom teacher all subject areas... Read More →

Saturday September 19, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am CEST
0.219 Am Luftschiffhafen 1, 14471 Potsdam

One-Hour Workshop

Audience Whole school for educators
Subject Transdisciplinary (teaching pedagogy & Methodology)

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