Staff Interest and Training

Opportunities for school staff and practitioners

We support schools and practitioners in engaging with and using research evidence to support children’s development.

Here are a few of the opportunities and resources we have available in the network, which we promote through our termly newsletters. Please sign up to the network and email us at sunray-network@york.ac.uk if you are interested in these opportunities.

We are often developing new materials, so if there is something you would like to see then please get in touch.

Developmental Language Disorder: Spotlight on Wellbeing

Target audience: Early years teachers, primary teachers, secondary teachers, practitioners

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) affects 7.5% of school age children. DLD is a condition that impacts children's oral language, but these children can also have problems with their mental health, sleep, literacy, and emotion recognition. Children with DLD may also mask their difficulties, making them harder for professionals to spot.

Through this collection of short videos, DLD researchers at the University of York put wellbeing in DLD under the spotlight.

Learning, Memory, and Neurohype

Target audience: Primary teachers; Secondary teachers; Educational psychologists; Career advisors

This is a short talk (30 minutes) on the psychology and neuroscience of learning and memory and their implications for classroom learning from the perspective of academics involved in fundamental research but who still thinks teachers know best. The idea is to prompt discussion (e.g., 30 minutes) on what neuroscience can and can't tell us and where we should look for answers.

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