The perfect guide to help you embed metacognitive approaches to your teaching.

What is metacognition and how can you use it in your teaching? Metacognition - being aware of our own ways of thinking - is popular in education, but it is not always obvious how it links to teaching practice and how to teach it explicitly. This book translates meaningful concepts from research literature not only into practical strategies to try in your classroom but also gives you the opportunity to reflect on metacognitive strategies that you already use.

Key topics include:

• Metacognitive strategies in a range of subjects, including English and mathematics
• Dismantling metacognitive misconceptions
• How to use metacognition to improve test performance
• The importance of developing a growth mindset
• How to develop self-regulation in the classroom

About the Author
Anoara Mughal is an experienced teacher and school leader, who is passionate about closing the disadvantage gap and promoting social justice.She serves on the Steering Group @HealthyToolkit, an organisation dedicated to encouraging and advancing teacher wellbeing. Anoara is also a Network Leader @WomenEdLondon, inspiring women into leadership. She has written online articles for The Chartered College of Teaching, the TES, The Headteacher, Teachwire and Learnus UK. Anoara has spoken at a number of conferences including Primary Rocks and The Festival of Education where she presented and contributed to a panel on: What is a broad and balanced curriculum? In 2017, she founded @NewToSLTChat but has since passed this on. Her article entitled: Metacognition: books, resources and teaching tips to help students know themselves as learners, was published online, by The Chartered College of Teaching, in January 2018. In 2020, she founded Inspire Metacognition and hosts monthly chats on metacognition @IMetacognition. She is a founding fellow at The Chartered College of Teaching and passed the NPQH in 2020. You can follow her @anoara_a.

Reviews
Being aware of our own ways of thinking; that's what metacognition is but do we have a firm grasp of what it actually means? In this unusually detailed, impeccably researched and passionately written text, Anoara Mughal has really encouraged us to think about thinking. Anoara takes thinking beyond the conceptual into the practical and this book helps us address metacognition not as something to be frightened of but something to embrace in assembling and supporting opportunities for learning in our classrooms. Written with reference to the Teachers Standards and Early Career Framework, this book is ideal for anyone wishing to develop their understanding of the thinking processes at work in their classrooms and indeed in their staff rooms as they continue to help our young people to be the best that they can be. Readily accessible and digestible in bite sized chunks, 'Think!' will support individual teacher development as well as inform whole school continual professional development for many years to come. -- Andrew Cowley



Book Information
ISBN 9781529713572
Author Anoara Mughal
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Sage Publications Ltd
Publisher Sage Publications Ltd
Weight(grams) 440g