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Conceptual Learning

From knowing to applying.

Conceptual learning helps learners connect knowledge, concepts and skills, build deeper understanding and apply their learning in new contexts.

Conceptual Learning ignition points

From Knowing to Applying

How do learners move beyond recalling knowledge to using understanding in new situations?

  • Designing learning that connects essential knowledge with concepts and purposeful skills.
  • Creating opportunities to explain, transfer and apply understanding across contexts.

Addressing Standards Through Concepts

How can standards contribute to coherent learning rather than disconnected coverage?

  • Grouping standards around concepts and meaningful relationships.
  • Using concepts to connect required knowledge and skills while retaining disciplinary rigour.

Connecting Skills & Concepts

How do skills contribute to the development and transfer of conceptual understanding?

  • Making the relationship between what learners understand and what they can do explicit.
  • Designing experiences where skills help learners investigate, express and apply concepts.

Connecting Subjects Through Concepts

How do we connect subjects without weakening disciplinary knowledge?

  • Identifying conceptual connections that add purpose and coherence across disciplines.
  • Ensuring subject knowledge and practices remain visible within connected learning.

Developing Writing Through Concepts

How can conceptual understanding strengthen what learners communicate in writing?

  • Using concepts to deepen ideas, reasoning and organisation across writing forms.
  • Connecting knowledge, evidence and perspective to produce more purposeful writing.

Tailored professional learning

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“Great session and learned a great deal more about concepts. It was fantastic to see the different pieces of work that made up the unit as well — it made it much clearer in my mind!”

— Workshop participant

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