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Empowering Pupils with Metacognitive Strategies

Empower your students to become self-regulated, systematic learners by teaching them metacognitive strategies. This course, led by Carly Watkins from Twinkl PD, will guide you through the theory and research behind metacognition, showing you how to implement these strategies to boost your students' learning. 

You'll discover how metacognitive strategies can improve students' problem-solving, self-regulation, and evaluation skills, as well as their ability to make connections and think systematically. With support from start to finish, this action-research course will help you understand the power of metacognition and effectively apply it to your unique teaching context.
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Carly Watkins

2 hours

Online Course

By completing this course, you will:

learn what metacognition is and how it improves learning;
look at some strategies for using metacognition in your lessons;
set yourself a goal and identify the actions you need to take to achieve the goal;
use metacognitive strategies in your lessons and evaluate the impact. 

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Course Overview

Carly Watkins

Carly Watkins has over twenty years of experience as a primary school teacher, including several years as an assistant headteacher, with responsibility for whole school curriculum development and overseeing pupil progress and attainment. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Education Practice and an NPQ in Leading Teacher Development.

Carly has been a mentor for both student and Early Career Teachers and currently facilitates the Early Career Framework for ECTs and their mentors, delivering training at conferences and via online seminars. At Twinkl PD, Carly heads up pedagogical professional development, a role which means she can support educators to develop their personal practice and pedagogy, something she is passionate about, on a national scale.
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