Enhance your students’ exercise books today with this selection of printables. This download includes five different options, each of which should be stuck in the back of students’ workbooks: that makes it perfect for bringing a variety of metacognitive strategies to your classes, department or school! ‘Are You Stuck?’ - Use the following metacognitive questions to help you complete your task before asking a teacher for help… ‘Finished Early!?’ - Take a moment to reflect on the following metacognitive questions… ‘Are You Stuck?’ - Use the metacognitive cycle to help you complete your task before asking your teacher for help… Metacognition Extension Tasks - A list of extension tasks that students can work on in the back of their exercise books if they find themselves having finished learning activities before other students (perfect for high-ability students in mixed-ability classes!) Important Theories for Boosting Learning Power - Big pedagogical ideas explained clearly and simply for students (Metacognition, Self-Regulated Learning, Independent Learning, Active Learning, Growth Mindset, Learning Styles & Learning Power) A very simple way to bring metacognition into your students’ lives - make sure to look at the preview images above! You might want to try printing off all five versions and allowing students to choose which design they would find most useful :)

The perfect resource for getting students to think deeply about revision planning, revision strategy, and the most effective approaches to revision in your subject! This download contains a short printable workbook: with six sides of revision-planning activities it is designed to be printed onto four double-sided pages. We have included editable (.doc) and easy-print (.pdf) formats for your convenience. The workbook includes reflection tasks that focus on: Student strengths & weaknesses Effective approaches to revision Subject-knowledge evaluation Revision planning Revision strategy Target-setting The fun and engaging design is based on a medieval ‘Battle Plan’ theme and aims to inspire students to think strategically about their long-term approach to revision. It is ideal for use in lessons or set as a homework task - perhaps especially as a homework assignment for a school holiday. Suitable for any subject.

This download contains five printable crossword worksheets that introduce important concepts and vocabulary relating to learning power, metacognition and self-regulated learning. It also includes a PowerPoint presentation with instructions as well as extension and assessment tasks for students. Students should work in pairs or small teams: teachers can differentiate the lesson for different ability and age groups by changing the size of the teams. This download contains everything you need for at least one teaching session, the resources can also be used to supplement and enhance a lesson you already have planned.

This workbook will help your students get much more from the documentaries you ask them to watch. This workbook is designed to facilitate home-learning. There are so many amazing documentaries and videos students can learn from online: this workbook helps them to get the most out of such learning opportunities. Simply set the documentaries you wish your students to watch and give them a copy of this workbook to complete! The printable workbook develops independent learning skills, note-taking skills and mind-mapping skills in relation to videos and documentaries. It includes ten learning-sessions over twenty pages: teachers simply need to give students the details of the videos they need to watch for each session. Teachers will find this homework booklet an effective way to enhance home-learning and reduce the work-load created by distance learning efforts. This download does not include video-links: you simply need to add the videos titles/links that you want students to watch - the workbook does the rest!

If you are using a video or documentary in your lessons then this is an ideal way of using metacognition to help students get more from it. This resource uses metacognitive questioning to enhance learning when students are watching educational videos or documentaries in lessons. It is suitable for teachers of all subjects and is applicable to video-learning activities on any topic: it should be used to enhance metacognition when students are learning from a video or documentary in lessons. Using the resource is easy: the PowerPoint contains numerous prompts, each with three metacognitive questions. Questions for before, during and after the video are clearly distinguished and the integrated menu allows you to switch to the different sections of the metacognitive process with ease. Simply show one set of questions to students before starting the video, one set of questions during a mid-point plenary, and one afterwards. The questions deal with a wide variety of different topics in relation metacognition and self-regulated learning: they aim to trigger student reflection on their own engagement with the learning process, thus allowing them to plan, monitor, evaluate and regulate their learning more effectively.

This download contains ten ICT Suite (Computer Room) learning sessions that are suitable for 1-hour teaching periods: they can be used by teachers of any subject working with students aged 11-16. Each session is a fully-resourced ‘zero prep’ lesson that encourages a high degree of learning autonomy and independence. We’ve taken a tried and tested lesson structure and connected it to our specialist topics: metacognition and self-regulated learning. Using a worksheet for guidance (and eventually peer-assessment) students spend the first 35-40 minutes of the lesson creating a presentation and the remainder of the session showing it to their peers and assessing one another’s work. The download includes PowerPoint instructions as well as a set of ten different worksheets which refer to different aspects of metacognition and self-regulated learning: five of the worksheets are teachers who wish for students to work in pairs and the other five are for solo work. The worksheets include a number of different topics for students to choose from – we wanted to bring autonomous learning into the design of this product and providing learners with options in these sessions is a way of empowering greater levels of autonomy. Aside from exploring important pedagogical topics (such as metacognition, independent learning, study skills, revision strategies and self-regulated learning) the presentations encourage students to connect these concepts to their own learning journeys: thus fostering metacognitive awareness and metacognitive knowledge. Aside from fostering these self-regulation and metacognitive skills, this approach to learning also helps to develop research skills, technical skills in relation to presentation design, and presentation delivery skills. The topics covered by the different worksheets are as follows: Metacognition (Solo Work) ‘How to Boost Learning in This Subject’(Solo Work) Revision Techniques & Revision Strategies (Solo Work) ‘Understanding How I Learn Best’ (Solo Work) ‘Boosting My Learning Power’ (Solo Work) ‘How To Succeed in This Subject’ (Paired Work) Being An Independent Learner (Paired Work) Revision Resources, Tips & Tricks (Paired Work) Metacognition & Self-Regulated Learning (Paired Work) Studying Skills (Paired Work) Some of the worksheets refer to subject specific reflections (e.g. #2) whilst others refer to more general metacognitive reflections and knowledge (e.g. #9). The worksheets include an integrated self-assessment system. Each worksheet uses the same basic structure and design, the worksheets cover different topics/options and can be used over time so that students improve each time they engage with the process. Since the worksheets (and PowerPoint files) are editable teachers can adjust contents to more precisely meet their students’ needs.

This resource is the product of 3 years teaching RS & Philosophy and, under observations, the lessons it has helped create have all been rated as good-outstanding. It is designed to make the creation of PPT presentations/lessons very quick and easy and includes: -Introduction slides -Learning Activities -Plenary Tasks -MAF There are over 100 slides. Most of the contents are easily adaptable to other subjects (especially Humanities subjects). Most activities are designed with differentiation in mind. In terms of design: slides may feature timers, animations, and stimulating graphics. I have always been a bit of a perfectionist in my design and hope it comes across in the slides. Thanks in advance for supporting my work: I hope it saves you a lot of time, improves your practice, and helps your students learn in an exciting and stimulating way. Sincerely, Adam Godwin

Includes: Posters Notices ’Do not disturb’ sign Instructions Introduction to Meditation Worksheet (to be used with listed YouTube videos) and a ‘sponsored meditation’ fundraising worksheet. If you would like any advice on running such a club please feel free to message me.

[For Section B: Families & Relationships] PLCs for all 3 sections of the short-course can be bought as one bundle, saving 50%. This download contains one personal learning checklists (PLCs), based on the latest OCR B Religious Studies Short-Course specification (2016 onwards). The PLC contains a list of all topics students are needed to know in relation to Christianity (Section B: Family & Relationships): students are asked to indicate their confidence level by shading red/amber/green and giving a confidence score of 1-10. On the reverse of the sheet are other useful measures that allow teachers to gauge a student’s confidence and reflective abilities. The Personal Learning Checklist (PLC): -Encourages students to reflect in a structured manner on revision focusses. -Allows the student to see clearly what they need to know for the exam. -Allows the student to communicate to their teacher how they can be best helped. -Gets the student to analyse their progress in relation to their target grade. -Gets students to establish both a revision and an exam technique focus.

This download contains two personal learning checklists (PLCs), based on the latest OCR B Religious Studies Short-Course specification (2016 onwards). The PLCs contain a list of all topics students are needed to know in relation to Christianity (Section A: Beliefs & Teachings): students are asked to indicate their confidence level by shading red/amber/green and giving a confidence score of 1-10. On the reverse of the sheet are other useful measures that allow teachers to gauge a student’s confidence and reflective abilities. Each Personal Learning Checklist (PLC): -Encourages students to reflect in a structured manner on revision focusses. -Allows the student to see clearly what they need to know for the exam. -Allows the student to communicate to their teacher how they can be best helped. -Gets the student to analyse their progress in relation to their target grade. -Gets students to establish both a revision and an exam technique focus.

This lesson is for revising key-words, it is useful for any subject that features key-words. It requires colour A3 printing. It includes: -A PPT with full instructions for the game and 2 x AfL slides -A printable game board (2-4 players) The game is easily customisable: simply change the task stated on the PPT (different square colours are associated with different revision activities).

2 x A3 Sheets (1 for each student) Made in Word so easily customisable. -can be assigned as a homework task, to be printed off and brought to lessons -can be completed as a learning/revision activity in class -can be used as an IT Suite Lesson Students fill in blank squares with relevant subject, revision, knowledge hunt information (and instructions to advance/retreat token X spaces). Students then connect their boards (creating a unique game each time) Opponents copy text when land on the other player's squares (60 seconds or they miss a turn!) Includes colour and black and white versions Includes PPT Instructions to integrate into your own presentation (with AfL slide). It is suggested that you add a few relevant background images/clip-art to make the board more specific to your subject (make sure to order/wrap them behind other objects and text) Dice (or dice app) and counters required.

This 12 slide presentation is designed for form-tutors. It features animated slides, activities, videos and key-information about the Chinese New Year. It encourages students to reflect on how they can make a fresh start in the new year and to make predictions about what the next year has in store for them.