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Teaching Hacks: Fixing Everyday Classroom Issues with Metacognition

By: Nathan Burns

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781529627916
Published By: Sage UK
Year: 2024
Page Count: 208
Publication date: July 30, 2024

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Description

This book is a practical guide offering new ways to fix many typical day-to-day issues in schools using metacognition to offer effective and efficient solutions. Discover new ways to enhance your own teaching with metacognition and how to apply it to many common aspects of teaching and learning.
Every chapter is written by a different education expert and takes a solution-focused approach exploring metacognitive strategies and ideas for the classroom. Key topics include:

Smart revision strategies
Nuanced and effective feedback
The power of modelling answers
Student motivation and resilience
Supporting struggling writers
Integrating metacognition across the curriculum
And much more!

Author(s)

Nathan Burns

Nathan Burns is current the Head of Maths in a Derbyshire school. He has previously worked as an Assistant Progress and Achievement Leader for Key Stage 3, More Able and Talented Co-ordinator and as a Second in Maths. Aside from these roles, Nathan is a metacognitive researcher, dedicated his teaching career to researching and understanding the theory and its applications to the classroom.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Metacognitive Tools for Writing

Chapter 2 Metacognition and Reading Comprehension

Chapter 3 Dealing with Students’ Lack of Motivation and Resilience

Chapter 4 Solving Poor Study Choices by Older Students

Chapter 5 Revision and Metacognition

Chapter 6 The Role of Metacognition in the Art & Design GCSE Externally Set Assignment

Chapter 7 Solving the Problem of Feedback

Chapter 8 Metacognitive Monitoring

Chapter 9 Modelling Metacognitive Mathematics for Understanding

Chapter 10 Metacognition Together: The Power of Challenge Talk and Contrast

Chapter 11 Learner Identity and its Contribution to Successful Outcomes for Students