Uncommon Sense Teaching: Part 2, Building Community and Habits of Learning
In Part 2 of Uncommon Sense Teaching: Building Community and Habits of Learning, you will explore the following areas more deeply—helping you to connect with the latest insights into research and have fun while you are doing it!
• The hidden strengths of neurodiversity: Dyslexia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, and
other syndromes that relate to learning
• The value of forgetting
• How to use habits formed by the procedural system to help you with classroom management
• Judicious use of rewards to motivate students (too many rewards can de-motivate)
• How to avoid educational fads
• The power of lesson plans
This is like no other course on teaching—it weaves late-breaking insights from neuroscience with personal insights from the classroom to provide unexpected, yet practical, new approaches. You’ll discover how to bring out the best from all your students in today’s diverse teaching environment, where students often have a wide range of abilities.
Uncommon Sense Teaching will take your teaching to a higher level for whatever subjects you teach, whether math, physics, literature, dance, art, or anything else; and whether you are teaching K-12, university, business, vocational, or at home.
Join us today to move into the new era of education!
Status: Pedagogy
Pedagogy
Status: Disabilities
Disabilities
Intermediate·Course·14 hours
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5.0
·Reviewed May 20, 2022
This is a great course, for anyone who wish to accelerate their teaching and learning to the next level!
5.0
·Reviewed May 11, 2022
Beneficial to all parents who want to help their kids learning better and more happily.
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 24, 2022
Once again, well done to the presenters on a sterling course! Loved every minute of it and cannot wait for part 3! The honours assignment really helps to cement the learning.
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 27, 2022
Excellent & insightful! The instructors were engaging, passionate & intelligent, who provided useful strategies to apply in one's classr.
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 4, 2022
I really enjoyed this course. Great instructors who broke down the information so clearly so teachers are able to easily use the information in the classrooms. Thank you!
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 13, 2023
Easy to follow even for me with my busy schedule, very engaging and useful. I have gained a great deal of insight that I will implement in my classroom.
5.0
·Reviewed Oct 19, 2024
Very useful and insightful course for those interested in learning and imparting it to others. Highly recommended.
5.0
·Reviewed May 22, 2022
Very Helpful and insightful concerning how we learn and how to get the best out of your students.
5.0
·Reviewed Dec 14, 2022
excellent overview of neuroscience for learning with examples of classroom techniques and implementation strategies for all types of learners.
4.0
·Reviewed Jul 14, 2022
This course provided a novel way of viewing teaching techniques.
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 14, 2022
Totally changed the way I viewed online learning. Lots of reviews at the end of each lessons to help me learn. I am so glad I found this course. Really useful for teachers. Thank you! =)
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Gilberto
5.0
·Reviewed Apr 25, 2022
Uncommon Sense Teaching Part 2 is a very informative course. Thorough study of the course will give you a more understanding at what is really going on in the brain while we learn. Supported by scientific research, which is also included in the course and also in depth books, scientific articles and a lot of supporting material for a deeper understanding of the subject is available. Excellent learning experience for all diversity of students.
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Kay
5.0
·Reviewed May 9, 2022
Such valuable scientific researched information presented in methods that will become part of my procedural thinking. Aplications to everyday teaching provided continuously. Popular teaching methods debunked and successful additions introduced with rationale. So much to think about and immediately apply.
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YK
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·Reviewed May 7, 2022
Like part I of the Uncommon Sense Teaching, the contents are enlightening but not overwhelming. Beth, Barb, and Terry's teaching styles are lively. Terry has made complex concepts in neurology simple enough to understand and to be applied in our uncommon sense teaching practices.
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Monica
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 25, 2022
Once again, well done to the presenters on a sterling course! Loved every minute of it and cannot wait for part 3! The honours assignment really helps to cement the learning.
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Lynn
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 28, 2022
Excellent & insightful! The instructors were engaging, passionate & intelligent, who provided useful strategies to apply in one's classr.
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Esperanza
5.0
·Reviewed May 5, 2022
The content is very interesting and the course is very well organized. Useful for any level of teaching, I have learned a lot.
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Katherine
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·Reviewed Jul 15, 2022
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Leow
5.0
·Reviewed Mar 10, 2023
I believe this course is a must attend for inspiring educators to gain fruitful insights on making their lessons more engaging for their students; coupled with the essential skills taught that help diverse learning styles of students learn more effectively.
Kudos to Profs Barb, Beth, and Terry for making this training insightful and informative for learners worldwide who are able to access the training. I am intrigued by the scientific studies and outcomes made available as part of the resources that reinforced why Uncommon Sense Teaching is relevant and credible for learning and implementation.
Not forgetting to give credits to Coursera for making this training make available for all who inspired to be a life-long learners in their personal and professional life.
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Sergio
5.0
·Reviewed May 27, 2022
El contenido del curso es trasmitido de una forma clara, las referencias y las citas de libros son de serias y valiosas.
No es facil decir qué nos trasmitió el curso porque, como todo conocimiento, debe sufrir un proceso de decantamiento, de "digestión", de procesamiento ,cunado se aplica en los diversos campos profesionales en lo cuales se puede aplicar.
Y lo aprendido en este curso es dable de aplicar en el ambito de varias profesiones en las cuales tengamos que interactuar con el "otro" como sujeto de cambio.
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Sawsan
5.0
·Reviewed Feb 1, 2025
A more than fantastic new perspective into teaching, some of which didn't align with some approaches I came across during my CELTA training. I am amazed by the fact about how children differently learn, so we need to be aware not to take things for granted by listening to our past learning or teaching experiences. I can't thank enough all the tutors on the course and the methods they implemented to make the learning enjoyable and fixed in the long-term memory. Amazing Amazing Amazing!!!!!!!!!!
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Francy
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·Reviewed Nov 27, 2025
Uncommon Sense Teaching: Part 2 – Building Community and Habits of Learning is an exceptionally well-designed course that blends neuroscience, pedagogy, and practical classroom strategies in a way that is both accessible and deeply insightful. This second part builds on the foundations of Part 1 and takes learning to a higher level by focusing on the social, emotional, and cognitive dimensions that make learning truly transformative.
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·Reviewed Jul 8, 2022
This second part is as interesting and motivating to keep on learning as the firt part of the course. Cannot wait to have the next part available. Congratulations for this excellent and illustrating course and thank you very much to all that made possible for us to have access to this very important and practical information in such a entertaining way, particularly to Barb, Beth and Terry.
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Jana
5.0
·Reviewed Dec 24, 2022
Thank you, Barb, Tery and Beth. You taught me how to teach, and helped me to love my profession even more. My mum, who also was a teacher, once told me; a teacher who thinks they have nothing to improve because they already know everything, should leave the teaching profession. I am willing to learn - for the sake of my students, who I am obliged to guide so that they reach their best.
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marta-borbala
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 11, 2022
I really liked this course. I learned a lot from it, which I can apply not only in my work, but also in my personal life. He strengthened me in knowledge and spirit. Thank you very much for the opportunity, I wish good health and successful work to all three instructors.
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Margarita
5.0
·Reviewed Feb 27, 2023
This course is exceptional! I've learn many new fresh techniques and reflections to improve my teaching practice- plus the videos are visually pleasant and the speakers are funny yet authoritative. A real must for teachers looking for a way to upgrade their game.
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Hector
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 7, 2022
Excellent course. I first followed Learning how to learn and asked to my colleagues to study it. Then I followed Uncommon Sense Teaching and definitly I learned a lot. I expect to apply this knowledge at my school. THNKS
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Zareen
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 2, 2022
An excellent course designed by our lecturers who made the topic immensely interesting and easy to remember. Huge heartfelt thanks to dear instructors - Barbara, Beth and Terry.
Definitely recommended course.
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Candicesoh
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 15, 2022
Totally changed the way I viewed online learning. Lots of reviews at the end of each lessons to help me learn. I am so glad I found this course. Really useful for teachers. Thank you! =)
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Natalie
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 5, 2022
I really enjoyed this course. Great instructors who broke down the information so clearly so teachers are able to easily use the information in the classrooms. Thank you!
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Matija
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 14, 2023
Easy to follow even for me with my busy schedule, very engaging and useful. I have gained a great deal of insight that I will implement in my classroom.