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Teaching Hacks: Fixing Everyday Classroom Issues with Metacognition

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

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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)

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Nathan Burns

Nathan Burns is a renowned teacher educator, working with schools, education organisations and educators across the world to develop high-quality teaching practice. Working in a number of UK-based schools, Nathan worked as a pastoral leader, More Able coordinator, metacognition lead, and lately, as a Head of Maths. During his time in the classroom, Nathan wrote two well received books on metacognition - Inspiring Deep Learning and Teaching Hacks - exploring how the theory can be effectively applied in the classroom. Since leaving the classroom, Nathan now leads high-quality professional development. He works with schools across the UK to deliver training on metacognition, alongside efforts with Teach First and Ambition Institute to train up the next generation of teachers. Nathan also leads Maths specific training for organisations including the Maths Hub. You will often find Nathan presenting research at the latest teaching conference, as well as online, posting on socials as Mr Metacognition.

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

Chapter 12 Connecting the Brain to the Page: The Power of Live Modelling in the Classroom

Chapter 13 Metacognition is a Powerful Tool

Chapter 14 Integrating Metacognition into the Curriculum

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