Education posters
LearnPosters has 100 free printable education posters, grouped into 7 topics: Learning theory, Curriculum & planning, Assessment, Classroom practice, Inclusive education. Learning theory, curriculum and the practice of teaching. They are made for undergraduates, professionals and anyone revising the subject. Every one downloads as a vector PDF that prints sharp on US Letter, A4 or a copy-shop A1.
What the evidence supports about how people learn, how to plan for it, and how to tell whether it worked.
100 free printable posters · 7 topics · vector PDF
Learning theory
Behaviourism, constructivism and cognitive load.
Behaviourism
Learning as a change in observable behaviour, shaped by what follows it.
Reinforcement Schedules
The four schedules, and why the unpredictable ones are hardest to break.
Constructivism
Understanding is built out of what a learner already holds, not handed over.
Scaffolding And The ZPD
The gap between what a learner can do alone and with help, and how to use it.
Cognitive Load Theory
Working memory is small; long-term memory is not. Teach for the difference.
The Worked Example Effect
Novices learn more from studying full solutions than from solving problems.
Retrieval Practice
Bringing something to mind strengthens it more than reading it again.
The Spacing Effect
The same study time spread over days beats the same time in one block.
Interleaving
Mixing problem types beats blocking them, if they are easily confused.
Desirable Difficulties
Conditions that slow learning down while it happens and improve what survives.
Learning Styles
The visual-auditory-kinaesthetic claim, and why no trial supports it.
Neuromyths
Brain claims that survive in staffrooms long after the research moved on.
Growth Mindset
What the theory claims, and why large trials keep shrinking the effect.
Prior Knowledge
The strongest single predictor of what a learner will take from a lesson.
Transfer
Why a skill learned in one setting so often fails to appear in another.
Curriculum & planning
Sequencing, objectives and backward design.
Backward Design
Start from the outcome, then the assessment, then the lessons.
Writing Objectives
An objective names what a pupil will do, in words you could observe.
Bloom's Taxonomy
The six revised levels, and the caveat the pyramid picture hides.
The Spiral Curriculum
Returning to the same big ideas at rising difficulty, never just once.
Sequencing
Order is part of the content, because each idea depends on earlier ones.
Knowledge Or Skills
The long argument about what a curriculum is made of, stated fairly.
Threshold Concepts
The few ideas in a subject that change how everything after them looks.
Progression Models
What getting better at a subject looks like, beyond just harder tasks.
Three Curricula
The curriculum on paper, the one taught, and the one pupils end up with.
The Hidden Curriculum
What a school teaches through its routines, norms and silences.
Curriculum Mapping
Laying out what is taught and when, so gaps and repeats become visible.
Anatomy Of A Lesson
Which parts of a lesson carry the learning, and which are administration.
Subjects Or Themes
Whether to organise a curriculum by discipline or by cross-cutting theme.
Judging A Resource
A short test for a textbook or worksheet before it reaches thirty pupils.
Cultural Capital
Bourdieu's concept, and what happens to it when it becomes a curriculum policy term.
Assessment
Formative, summative, validity and feedback.
Formative Or Summative
The difference is not the test, but what happens to the result afterwards.
Validity
Whether a test measures what it claims, and supports your inference.
Reliability
Whether the same pupil would get the same result on another day, paper or marker.
Feedback That Works
Most feedback changes nothing. What separates the rest is known.
Rubrics
What a rubric does for consistency, and how it quietly narrows the work.
Writing Multiple Choice
A well-built multiple-choice item can test understanding. Most are built badly.
Norm Or Criterion
Whether a result reports how a pupil compares or what they can do.
Marking Reliability
How much of a mark comes from the work and how much from the marker.
Blueprinting A Test
Deciding what a test covers, and in what proportion, before writing it.
Hinge Questions
A single question that tells you, in under a minute, whether to move on.
Peer And Self Assessment
What pupils can judge reliably, what they cannot, and how to set it up.
Comparative Judgement
Marking by picking the better of two scripts, rather than against a rubric.
Reading A Test Score
What a test score can support, and the inferences it cannot carry.
When The Test Becomes The Goal
What happens to a measure once decisions are attached to it.
Classroom practice
Behaviour, questioning and explanation.
Routines
The repeated procedures that make a room predictable and free attention.
Questioning
Making questions tell you what the class knows, not the volunteers.
Explaining Well
The features that separate an explanation pupils follow from one they merely hear.
Checking Understanding
Finding out what a class actually knows before spending the rest of the lesson on it.
Modelling
Showing the process, including the thinking, rather than only the finished product.
Cutting Load In A Lesson
Practical changes that free up working memory for the idea being taught.
A Behaviour System
What makes a classroom behaviour system work, and the part most systems get wrong.
Transitions
The joins between activities, where most lost lesson time actually goes.
Group Work
The conditions under which collaboration helps, and the default under which it does not.
Instruction Or Discovery
The long argument over how much guidance to give, and where it landed.
Homework
What homework is for, and the age below which the evidence thins out.
Teacher Expectations
The Pygmalion finding, what replication did to it, and what still stands.
Room Layout
What seating arrangements actually change, and how little of it is attainment.
Designing Practice
How much practice, of what kind, and when it should stop being identical.
Inclusive education
SEND, differentiation and access.
Areas Of Need
The four broad categories used to organise special educational needs, and their limits.
Adaptive Teaching
Adjusting to what pupils show, rather than pre-sorting them by task.
Universal Design For Learning
Designing a lesson so fewer individual adjustments are needed later.
Dyslexia
What the term describes, what the evidence supports, and what it does not.
ADHD In The Classroom
Classroom adjustments for pupils with attention and regulation needs.
Autistic Pupils
Adjustments that reduce avoidable barriers, and the assumptions worth dropping first.
Language Needs
Spoken language difficulties are common, easily missed, and often read as behaviour.
English As An Additional Language
Learning the language of instruction while learning everything taught in it.
Assess, Plan, Do, Review
The cycle for meeting additional needs before any diagnosis arrives.
Deploying Support Staff
The finding that surprised schools, and what changed as a result.
Accessible Materials
Design choices that remove barriers for some pupils and cost nothing for the rest.
Access Arrangements
Adjustments to how an assessment is taken, so it measures the intended thing.
The Disadvantage Gap
The gap linked to socio-economic disadvantage, and what schools affect.
Trauma-Informed Practice
What the approach proposes, and why its evidence base is thinner than its popularity.
Educational technology
What technology adds, and what it does not.
What Technology Adds
The question to ask of any tool: what does this do that the analogue version cannot?
Digital Natives
The claim that pupils raised on screens learn differently, and why it fails.
Multimedia Principles
Mayer's rules for combining words and pictures, and which matter most.
Handwriting Or Typing
A famous note-taking finding, a failed replication, and what can still be said.
Phones In The Classroom
What is established about phones and attention, and what is contested.
Adaptive Software
Software that adjusts difficulty to a pupil, and where it actually works.
Instructional Video
What makes a teaching video work, and where attention reliably drops.
Flipped Learning
Content at home, practice in class. What the evidence supports and what it depends on.
Gamification
Points, badges and leaderboards, and what happens to them after the novelty ends.
Generative AI In Teaching
Where language models help a teacher, and where their errors cost most.
Remote Learning
What the large-scale natural experiment of school closures showed.
Quizzing Tools
The one place technology beats paper: low-stakes retrieval at scale.
Pupil Data
Principles for handling pupil information when the tool lives on someone else's server.
Judging An Edtech Claim
Reading a supplier's evidence page without being sold by its design.
Policy & systems
How school systems are organised and governed.
How A School System Works
The layers between a national government and a single classroom.
Accountability
How systems check school quality, and the behaviour each one produces.
League Tables
What a published ranking of schools can and cannot tell a reader.
School Funding
How money reaches a school, and the choices hidden in the formula.
School Choice
The argument that competition improves schools, and what the evidence shows.
Selection And Setting
Separating pupils by attainment, between schools or within them.
Class Size
The most studied question in education, and one of the most disappointing.
Teacher Supply
Why systems run short of teachers, and which levers actually shift the number.
Professional Development
What separates training that changes practice from training that does not.
Reading PISA
What international assessments measure, and the inferences they cannot support.
Reading An Effect Size
How to interpret the number that decides which interventions get funded.
What Counts As Evidence
The strength of different study designs, and why education has a replication problem.
Early Years Policy
Why early provision attracts policy attention, and what the evidence says.
Who Decides The Curriculum
The trade-off between a common national curriculum and local control.
Questions about the Education posters
- What is the Education section of LearnPosters?
- Learning theory, curriculum and the practice of teaching. What the evidence supports about how people learn, how to plan for it, and how to tell whether it worked.
- What topics do the Education posters cover?
- 100 posters across 7 topics. Learning theory — Behaviourism, constructivism and cognitive load. Curriculum & planning — Sequencing, objectives and backward design. Assessment — Formative, summative, validity and feedback. Classroom practice — Behaviour, questioning and explanation. Inclusive education — SEND, differentiation and access. Educational technology — What technology adds, and what it does not. Policy & systems — How school systems are organised and governed.
- Who are the Education posters for?
- The education charts are pitched at undergraduates and professionals — the frameworks and equations a course keeps returning to. Nothing here is tied to a school year, so a curious beginner and someone revising the same material for an exam are looking at the same education chart.
- Which Education poster should I print first?
- Behaviourism, Reinforcement Schedules and Constructivism are the ones people reach for first — they are the references the rest of the education set assumes you already have on the wall.BehaviourismReinforcement SchedulesConstructivism
- Are the Education posters free to print?
- Yes — all 100 of them. Each education poster is a free vector PDF that needs no account, prints on US Letter or A4, and enlarges to A1 without softening. Home, classroom, library and tutoring use are all covered by the licence.Read the licence
Where the education charts come from
These posters summarise. When you need the full account — or the normative text a chart is compressing — start here.
- National Center for Education Statistics — US Department of Education. Public data behind any figure quoted on an education-policy chart.
- Educational psychology — Wikipedia. Provenance for the learning theories these posters summarise.