A £6 million fund has been launched to support collaborative projects between educators and neuroscientists.
The aim is to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a range of neuroscience-based educational interventions.
Launched by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) and the Wellcome Trust, the fund comes after an online survey of teachers found that many are optimistic about the potential of neuroscience to improve teaching practice in the next 10 years.
It also discovered a number of interventions already in use, such as the idea of learning styles – that different students learn best when materials are presented in different ways.
Some teachers are also using commercially developed interventions, but there is concern that many of these have little peer-reviewed evidence to show their effectiveness.
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