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Metacognition – Bright Spots
I recently wrote a blog detailing the two aspects of metacognition that our teachers are working on here at Durrington. You can read it here. Essentially, we are focusing on two elements: modelling our thinking and metacognitive questioning. As the … Continue reading →
What’s The Plan?
We would tell our students it is a bad idea to get on a train if you don’t know where it is going. Or maybe we wouldn’t. It’s been a long half-term. Similarly, we would advocate that students only embark … Continue reading →
Metacognition and Cognitive Load Theory
This blog is not a shameless attempt to boost Class Teaching’s monthly visitor stats by combing two educational zeitgeists. Honest. However, it is fair to say a lot of keyboards have been collectively tapped over the past few months creating … Continue reading →
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Mastering Metacognition
At Durrington, teachers in their first five years of teaching are offered the opportunity to study a part-funded masters in education through the University of Brighton, led by Dr Brian Marsh. Our Head of Geography Ben Crockett, has just successfully … Continue reading →
Metacognition in PE
Deputy Leader of PE and Research School Associate James Crane discusses how he has been developing metacognition with his students. The Problem Teachers should acquire the professional understanding and skills to develop their pupils’ metacognitive knowledge. Whilst this is of course … Continue reading →
Bright Spots
We have got off to a great start at Durrington High School and visiting lessons over the past few days made it clear why this has been the case. In all of the lessons that we saw, the students were … Continue reading →
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5 tips for using year 10 mocks
In this brave new world in which reformed GCSE specifications have created more exams than ever before, the piles of mock papers are growing increasingly tall. Schools have organised the sitting of practice exams quite idiosyncratically, with a variety of models out there, often depending on … Continue reading →
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Metacognition: Making it Happen in the Classroom
According to the EEF Toolkit, metacognition and self-regulation is one of the top two most effective teaching and learning strategies (the other being feedback), and can increase students’ progress by as much as eight months. The EEF succinctly explains that metacognition involves … Continue reading →
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Mobilising the Evidence
One of the most important roles for Research Schools such as us, is to support teachers and leaders who work in schools and colleges to mobilise the research evidence that is out there, so that it can make a positive … Continue reading →
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Tagged evidence, INSET, literacy, metacognition, Research, Vocabulary
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Using student checklists to support metacognition
This week’s teaching forum was with science teacher Becky Owen. Becky has been reflecting on how she and other members of the science team have been using content checklists with students with, a view to: Improving student awareness of their … Continue reading →
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