“Excellent ideas for how to embed metacognition across the whole school”

Catherine Brooks, Lead teacher on Metacognition, The Crypt School
  • Do your pupils prefer recalling information to “real” thinking?
  • How do you help students improve their self-understanding?
  • What are good metacognitive skills?
  • What are pupils with high levels of metacognition capable of?
  • How can metacognition improve the pupil outcomes for SEND and more able students?

The Sutton Trust highlight how primary metacognition and self-regulation strategies add, on average, up to 8 months of additional progress. According to the Sutton Trust, teaching students meta-cognitive 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 in primary schools improve rates of progress, particularly in reading, science and maths.

This course explore a range of metacognitive strategies teachers can apply in the primary classroom in any subject at any level to develop pupils who understand their own learning and have the self-awareness to directly influence their own performance.

We have a range of INSET on Metacognition for teachers of different subjects and Teaching Assistants, to view these courses please click here

INSET Outline

Overview of the research and benefits of Primary Metacognition and how it applies to the classroom

  • Making sense of metacognition and its impact on learning
  • What does educational research tell us?
  • How can metacognition specifically help the performance of SEND learners and more able pupils?

Strategies for promoting Metacognition in all subjects in the Primary Classroom

  • Turning pupils into metacognitive experts
  • 5 powerful ways to promote metacognitive awareness in your classroom
  • Planning for Metacognition across the curriculum
  • Improving pupil progress in all subjects through metacognition and self-regulation

Specific strategies for Improving metacognition in Reading, Maths and Science teaching

  • Reading (English) strategies
  • Maths strategies
  • Science strategies
  • How to apply these ideas to other subjects

Self- Regulation in the Primary Classroom

  • 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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One Reply to “Primary INSET : Primary Metacognition Strategies”

  1. I would like more information about this course and an interested in it for my school.

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