Full Description
Discover how to enhance your school's curriculum and boost student outcomes by applying metacognition across secondary subject teaching.
This book offers secondary school teachers and curriculum leaders a comprehensive guide on how to build metacognitive strategies into curriculum design, maximising student learning outcomes. It sets out the groundwork for applying metacognitive approaches to teaching and learning, from avoiding pitfalls to whole school strategy, before looking in detail at nine secondary curriculum subjects and the application of metacognitive teaching to tutor time.
Through expert insights and practical strategies, grouped around planning, monitoring and evaluation, it explores what joined-up and effective metacognitive teaching looks like in different subject disciplines.
Contents
Part I: Key Concepts
Chapter 1: Metacognitive Theory - Nathan Burns
Chapter 2: The Pitfalls of Implementation - Nathan Burns
Chapter 3: Determining Your Focus - Nathan Burns
Chapter 4: Embedding Change - Nathan Burns
Chapter 5: Whole School Versus Subject Specific Implementation - Nathan Burns
Chapter 6: Strategy Choices - Nathan Burns
Part II: Curriculum Areas
Chapter 7: Mathematics - Ryan Woolaston
Chapter 8: Science - David Boyce
Chapter 9: English - Sarah Dowey
Chapter 10: The Humanities - Benjie Groom
Chapter 11: Music and Performing Arts - Kirsten Johnson
Chapter 12: Physical Education - Adam Goodwin
Chapter 13: Computing - Jonathan Usherwood
Chapter 14: Art - Lucy Williams
Chapter 15: Modern Foreign Languages - Liam Bretag
Chapter 16: The Tutor Curriculum and Metacognition - Nathan Burns
