Teaching Hacks: Fixing Everyday Classroom Issues with Metacognition

Teaching Hacks: Fixing Everyday Classroom Issues with Metacognition
Author: Nathan Burns
Publisher: Sage Publications UK
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2024-05-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1529678633

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!

Powerful Classrooms

Powerful Classrooms
Author: Patrice M. Bain
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2024-09-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1394289286

Bring cognitive research to teaching practice with this practical toolkit How do you introduce the science of learning to your faculty? How do you leverage professional development to ensure that teachers continually apply that science within their classrooms? How can you maximize learning in your classroom through the use of researched and evidence-informed strategies? These are the questions Patrice Bain sets out to answer in Powerful Classrooms: Evidence-informed Strategies and Resources. This book is a follow-up to Powerful Teaching, in which Bain and Pooja Agarwal unlocked the secrets to successfully applying the science of learning in classroom settings. Now, Bain seeks to share her strategies with a wider audience of educators and school administrators. Patrice Bain is a longtime teacher and a leading voice in the science of learning. In this book, she uses easy-to-understand language to explain the latest findings from cognitive science about how humans learn best. Then, she offers practical techniques and activities for encouraging learning in any subject. Inside, you'll find: Clear explanations of the science of learning and how it can improve administration and classroom teaching Research-based practices that can be used everywhere from small-scale classrooms to large school districts A collection of the best articles, books, podcasts, and websites for further exploration For administrators, instructional coaches, and teachers looking for simple yet powerful practices, adding Powerful Classrooms into your educational toolkit will enhance student success through the science of learning.

Metacognition in Educational Theory and Practice

Metacognition in Educational Theory and Practice
Author: Douglas J. Hacker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 429
Release: 1998-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135687412

This volume presents the most current perspectives on the role of metacognition in diverse educationally relevant domains. The purpose is to examine the ways in which theoretical investigations of metacognition have recently produced a strong focus on educational practice. The book is organized around four general themes relevant to education: metacognition and problem solving, metacognition and verbal comprehension, metacognition and the education of nontraditional populations, and metacognition and studentship. Chapter authors review current literature as it applies to their chapter topic; discuss theoretical implications and suggestions for future research; and provide educational applications. Each chapter describes testable theory and provides examples of how theory can be applied to the classroom. The volume will have wide appeal to researchers and students concerned with the scientific investigation of metacognition, and to practitioners concerned with the cultivation of learning and achievement in their students. The unique contribution of this book to the literature on metacognition is its presentation of the most current research examining specific theoretical aspects of metacognition in domains directly relevant to education. This is especially valuable for the many researchers and practitioners who subscribe to the concept that by fostering metacognitive processes during instruction, more durable and transferable learning can be achieved.

The Metacognitive Student

The Metacognitive Student
Author: Richard K. Cohen
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021
Genre: Academic achievement
ISBN: 9781951075040

"Stress and anxiety run rampant through modern schools, with both teachers and students dealing with seemingly unmanageable volumes of both daily. A common solution many school districts have tried is to introduce social-emotional learning (SEL) as part of school curricula, which has proven to help with stress and anxiety levels. However, SEL is challenging for teachers to implement effectively, often adding more stress to overwhelmed students and teachers than it takes away. Teachers need a way to practice and teach SEL simultaneously with academic content in order to achieve balance. To address this need, authors Richard K. Cohen, Deanne Kildare Opatosky, James Savage, Susan Olsen Stevens, and Edward P. Darrah developed a simple, flexible strategy teachers and students can utilize as part of any academic content area and any grade level. The Metacognitive Student: How to Teach Academic, Social, and Emotional Intelligence in Every Content Area explains how teachers can learn and use with students a metacognitive approach the authors call structured SELf-questioning. With this strategy, students and teachers learn how to stop and think about their thinking (metacognition) and weave critical-thinking and problem-solving skills into everyday learning to increase self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and responsible decision making. Through a metacognitive approach utilizing SELf-questioning, stress and anxiety lose their hold on classrooms so that effective education can thrive"--

Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains

Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains
Author: Donna Wilson (Psychologist)
Publisher: ASCD
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2016
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1416622136

In this book, the authors explain metacognition and how it equips students to meet today's rigorous education standards. They present a unique blend of useful metaphors, learning strategies, and instructional tips you can use to teach your students to be the boss of their brains.

Thinking Classrooms: Metacognition Lessons for Primary Schools

Thinking Classrooms: Metacognition Lessons for Primary Schools
Author: Katherine Muncaster
Publisher: Rising Stars
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2018-11-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1510429018

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.

Handbook of Metacognition in Education

Handbook of Metacognition in Education
Author: Douglas J. Hacker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 651
Release: 2009-06-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135591938

Providing comprehensive coverage of the theoretical bases of metacognition and its applications to educational practice, this compendium of focused and in-depth discussions from leading scholars in the field: represents an intersection of education, cognitive science, and technology; serves as a gateway to the literature for researchers and practitioners interested in one or more of the wide array of topics included; and sets the standard for scholarship for theoretical research and practical applications in this field. The Handbook of Metacognition in Education — covering Comprehension Strategies, Metacognitive Strategies, Metacomprehension, Writing, Science and Mathematics, Individual Differences, Self-Regulated Learning, Technology, Tutoring, and Measurement — is an essential resource for researchers, faculty, students, curriculum developers, teachers, and others interested in using research and theory on metacognition to guide and inform educational practice.

Metacognition in Science Education

Metacognition in Science Education
Author: Anat Zohar
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2011-10-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9400721323

Why is metacognition gaining recognition, both in education generally and in science learning in particular? What does metacognition contribute to the theory and practice of science learning? Metacognition in Science Education discusses emerging topics at the intersection of metacognition with the teaching and learning of science concepts, and with higher order thinking more generally. The book provides readers with a background on metacognition and analyses the latest developments in the field. It also gives an account of best-practice methodology. Expanding on the theoretical underpinnings of metacognition, and written by world leaders in metacognitive research, the chapters present cutting-edge studies on how various forms of metacognitive instruction enhance understanding and thinking in science classrooms. The editors strive for conceptual coherency in the various definitions of metacognition that appear in the book, and show that the study of metacognition is not an end in itself. Rather, it is integral to other important constructs, such as self-regulation, literacy, the teaching of thinking strategies, motivation, meta-strategies, conceptual understanding, reflection, and critical thinking. The book testifies to a growing recognition of the potential value of metacognition to science learning. It will motivate science educators in different educational contexts to incorporate this topic into their ongoing research and practice.

Metacognition, Worldviews and Religious Education

Metacognition, Worldviews and Religious Education
Author: Shirley Larkin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2019-07-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000021718

Religious Education (RE) holds a unique place within the state education system. Yet, the teaching of RE has often been criticised for its tendency to present simplified and stereotypical representations of religions. Bringing together the theory of metacognition with RE curriculum content, this book offers a coherent and theoretically supported approach to RE and beyond that is applicable to a range of subjects and students of various age groups. Metacognition, Worldviews and Religious Education seeks to support teachers in creating a new and exciting classroom approach. With a focus on putting children and teachers’ worldviews back on the RE agenda and developing awareness of these through metacognitive processes, it includes • Tables, frameworks and checklists to make it easy for teachers to adapt the approach to their own context • Concrete examples of how the approach can work in the classroom, including case studies from teachers • Call-out boxes for teachers and others to reflect on their own practice and to consider their own beliefs and values in relation to teaching and learning Co-authored by three researchers from Exeter University and one experienced advanced skills RE primary school teacher, this book explains in a jargon-free way the theories of metacognition and worldviews which underpin the creation of a unique learning environment, making it an essential read for students, experienced teachers, researchers in RE and anyone interested in taking a thinking skills approach to pedagogy.

Pocket Full Of Tricks

Pocket Full Of Tricks
Author: Heather Okeke
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2019-03-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1643482025

This book is about creating an engaging classroom which allows children to learn through fun and exciting activities as well as ideas for the teachers which include everything from transitions to your daily schedule. _ is book will demonstrate how easy it is to think outside the box by incorporating these ideas into learning activities as well as turning everyday items into usable golden treasures for the classroom, turning trash to treasures.