Expert-Led Webinar: The Science of Motivation with Peps Mccrea - Thursday 09 October 2025 (Online)

HMC Expert-led Webinars – a series of online CPD sessions, focusing on current themes and issues within wider society impacting schools and school culture.

Description

The Science of Motivation

With Peps Mccrea

 

What is motivation for learning? How does it work? How can we influence it in the classroom? This session will offer a framework of 5 big ideas from the evidence on motivation plus 5 key strategies we can use to boost attention and effort in the classroom.

 

Webinar Programme

 

 

16:00 – 16:05

 

Welcome and introductions

 

Speaker: Ruth Roberts, Head of Member Services, HMC

 

 

16.05 – 17.00

 

 

The Science of Motivation

 

Speaker: Peps Mccrea, Award-winning teacher educator, designer and author

 

 

17.00 – 17.30

 

Question and Answer Time

 

 

17.30

 

Close

 

 

Speaker Biography 

Peps Mccrea is an award-winning teacher educator, designer and author. He is Director of Education at Steplab and author of the ultraconcise High Impact Teaching series. Peps has three Masters degrees, Fellowships from the Young Academy and University of Brighton, and lots of distracting tattoos. Visit pepsmccrea.com for more.