Teaching children metacognitive skills (an understanding of how they learn) can help raise attainment by an average of seven months according to research carried out by the Education Endowment Fund. Rising Stars' Thinking Classrooms handbook offers engaging lesson plans and activities to introduce and teach metacognition throughout a primary school, from Reception through KS1 and KS2.

With Rising Stars' Thinking Classrooms you can encourage transferrable learning skills such as planning and checking, boost children's independence, resilience and approach to learning, and develop teacher confidence with embedded CPD.

This comprehensive handbook also includes a clear introduction to metacognition and its benefits, pupil self-evaluation at the end of each activity, downloadable worksheets and templates, original and fun assembly ideas and fun assembly ideas and accompanying videos.

About the Author
Katherine has been teaching for 21 years and is passionate about engaging children in their own learning. She also works as an education consultant, presenting her work at conferences and universities, and provides both online training and consultancy for schools in the UK. She regularly blogs and shares her ideas at www.everychildalearner.com, on Twitter @everychilda and on Instagram 'everychilda'. Shirley Clarke is an Associate of the Institute of Education, University of London, and is much in demand as an education consultant, in the UK and internationally. An experienced primary teacher and advisory teacher, and a popular speaker, she runs numerous local and regional training courses on classroom assessment. Her courses and training days for teachers, and ongoing involvement in action research, give her a down-to-earth perspective on day-to-day classroom realities. Shirley's latest book, Enriching Feedback in the Primary Classroom (2003), takes forward issues developed in her hugely popular Unlocking Formative Assessment (2001) and Targeting Assessment in the Primary Classroom (1998). She is also co-author (with Barry Silsby) of Key Words Spelling, and editor of Tracking Significant Achievement in the Early Years.


Book Information
ISBN 9781510424371
Author Katherine Muncaster
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Rising Stars UK Ltd
Publisher Rising Stars UK Ltd
Weight(grams) 520g
Dimensions(mm) 244mm * 188mm * 16mm