PsychBites
PsychBites is the podcast for education professionals that aims to bridge the gap between educational psychology research and day-to-day practice with children and young people.
Hosted by trainee educational psychologists Laura Chapman, Ellyn Berman-Jones and Lauren Bratton, each episode features a guest educational psychologist discussing their specialist area of research in a bite-size, digestible way that offers food for thought for all professionals working in education.
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Ep.23 Part 1 Mediating Learning Support Approach (MeLSA) - Dr Mary Stanley-Duke
This week, we’re joined by Dr. Mary Stanley-Duke to explore the Mediating Learning Support Approach (MeLSA). In part one of our conversation, Mary explains the principles of mediating learning, outlines the structure of the MeLSA training programme, and shares how the project has evolved since its inception.
For more information:
Stanley-Duke, M., Wright, D., Cook, E., Reid, A., Cogan, O., Reese, S., Bull-Beddows, R., Sims, L. and Graves, F. 2022. The Psychological Foundations of The Mediating Learning Support Assistant (MeLSA) Training Programme. Educational Psychology Research and Practice. 8 (1), pp. 1-12. https://doi.org/10.15123/uel.8v1v7
Wright, D., Stanley-Duke, M., Pennack-Thomas, J., Marquez, Vega, E. and Kalippen, P. 2023. “It’s Just a New Way of Looking at Learning”: Evaluation of the Mediating Learning Support Assistant (MeLSA) Training Programme. Educational Psychology Research and Practice. 9 (1), pp. 1-11. https://doi.org/10.15123/uel.8wqxv
Swindon EPS commissioned a video, ‘Making the Most of MeLSA’ https://youtu.be/ztEfBKXYj70
CPD opportunity with edpsy hosts: edpsy hosts Dr Mary Stanley-Duke: Mediating learning - supporting children to get the most from every learning task - edpsy.org.uk
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