How can teachers make pupils’ thinking visible, and how can visual organisers help pupils understand, organise and apply their learning?
Help pupils organise ideas, explain their reasoning and take greater control of their learning.
A pupil may have good ideas but struggle to organise them, explain their reasoning or turn them into a clear spoken or written response. When working memory, language or task organisation are under pressure, thinking can remain hidden from the pupil as well as the teacher.
This course explores practical visual tools that help pupils organise ideas, make their reasoning visible and take greater control of their learning.
Give pupils practical ways to organise ideas, explain their thinking and work with greater independence.
Starts 8 March 2027
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Registering interest is free. A course run is confirmed once at least six participants have registered their interest. Until then, neither a place nor a course run is guaranteed. Booking terms →
Run the course with your own staff, on your own dates.
Part 1
How graphic organisers support planning, monitoring and evaluating learning.
Part 2
Modelling organisers for reading, discussion and writing, and adapting them.
Every course we run is built on what research says makes professional learning change practice. Here is what that looks like in this one.
Concise explanations and worked examples of how visual organisers support planning, monitoring and evaluating learning.
You work towards one visual routine to introduce with your own pupils.
You model each organiser, rehearse it and adapt it, with feedback from your fixed group.
An optional online follow-up lets you review what happened when you introduced one routine, and refine the next step.
The course builds knowledge through concise explanation and worked examples, then develops technique through modelling, rehearsal, peer feedback and practical adaptation. Fixed groups provide continuity through the day. The follow-up session helps participants review what happened when they introduced one routine, identify where pupils needed more or less support, and refine the next step.
The course draws on the Education Endowment Foundation’s 2025 guidance on metacognition and self-regulated learning, including explicit teaching, modelling and scaffolding of planning, monitoring and evaluation strategies. It also draws on the EEF’s SEND guidance on cognitive strategies and graphic organisers, alongside Swedish national guidance on visual support and graphic models in teaching.
EUR 350 per participant, excl. VAT
Live online teaching; digital workbook; editable original organiser templates; certificate of attendance; 60-minute live online follow-up.
Nick Praulins is co-founder of The Nordic Learning Company, where he leads our work with schools and educators, shaping the learning philosophy, pedagogy and programme design behind its education practice.
View profile →You can move to another date or send a colleague at no cost. If you cancel more than four weeks before the start, we keep 30% of the fee; inside four weeks, we keep the full fee. If we cancel, you choose a full refund or another date.
What you’ll leave with
Six organiser types you can model, and a routine ready to try with your pupils.
Pairs well with
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EUR 350 per participant, excl. VAT
Starts 8 March 2027
