“Excellent ideas for how to embed metacognition & self regulation across the whole school”
Catherine Brooks, Lead teacher on Metacognition, The Crypt School
Thinking About Thinking: Empowering Learners Through Metacognition & Self-regulation
This INSET focuses on developing pupils’ metacognitive skills to increase ownership, self-regulation and engagement. It draws on EEF guidance and classroom case studies to show how metacognition can be taught and embedded.
The Sutton Trust highlight how metacognitive and self-regulation strategies add, on average, up to 8 months of additional progress. According to the Sutton Trust, teaching students metacognitive skills has “consistently high levels of impact” for low achieving and older pupils and pupil premium students. Inspectors are now much more focussed on pupil outcomes and inspectors judge schools against pupil attributes such as their ability to make decisions as well as self-awareness and understanding how to improve their own learning. The evidence is certainly encouraging, these strategies are cost-effective and can help students improve rates of progress, particularly in reading, science and maths.
Developing Self -Regulation in Learners
Self-regulation is a vital skill for pupils, empowering them to take ownership of their learning and behaviour. When pupils develop the ability to plan, monitor, and evaluate their own progress, they become more independent, resilient, and motivated. This not only improves academic outcomes but also fosters lifelong learning habits. Self-regulated learners are better equipped to manage distractions, set meaningful goals, and reflect on their successes and setbacks. In classrooms, promoting self-regulation supports a more inclusive and engaged learning environment, where pupils feel confident to take risks, persist through challenges, and contribute actively to their own development.
INSET Outline
Understanding Metacognition
- Making sense of metacognition and its impact on learning
- What does educational research tell us?
- Links to pupil progress and independence
Strategies for promoting metacognition in all subjects in all classrooms
- Subject-specific approaches
- Turning pupils into metacognitive experts
- 5 powerful ways to promote metacognitive awareness in your classroom
- Using classroom dialogue to promote metacognitive questioning strategies
Teacher Behaviours That Support Metacognition
- Feedback, questioning, scaffolding
- Creating a classroom culture of reflection
Self- Regulation in practice
- Developing self-awareness and self-regulation and their role in learning
- Helping pupils develop the toolkit for evaluating their own progress
- Developing pupil’s self-knowledge, self-esteem and self-confidence
- Letting pupils understand how to improve their own learning and performance
- Preparing pupils to be life long learners
“Excellent ! Really appreciated the resources – good quality and directly useful”.
Charlotte Resuggan , Assistant Head (Teaching & Learning), Sidcot School
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