Please note that booking on to the first session date enrolls you on the dates below.

This training will be delivered by Julie Kettlewell, Stephen Foreman and Alastair Gittner.

Session 1 (07/12/2021) 2-4pm

This session will enable you to:

Consider how teachers should acquire the professional understanding and skills to develop their pupils’ metacognitive knowledge and consider what knowledge staff need.

Understand the key concepts including the myths around metacognition.

Initiate the ‘explore phase’ of implementation.

Session 2 (18/01/2022) 2-4pm

This session will enable you to:

Understand how we can explicitly teach pupils metacognitive strategies, including how to plan, monitor and evaluate their learning.

Exemplify metacognitive scaffolding in the classroom.

Session 3 (08/02/2022) 2-4pm

This session will enable you to:

Understand the impact of a limited working memory and how we can support pupils with this deficit.

Understand the importance of deliberate difficulties and how this relates to motivation.

Session 4 (22/03/22) 2-4pm

This session will enable you to:

Understand how classroom dialogue can be used to develop metacognitive skills.

Recognise the role teacher play in guiding and supporting the conversation to ensure it’s challenging and builds on prior subject knowledge.

Have a common, clear understanding of what independent learning truly is.

Explore the things your students do to organise and manage their learning effectively.

Explore the ways you and your team effectively support students to learn independently.

Session 5 (26/04/22)

This session will enable you to:

Understand how to assess metacognition and self-regulation in a valid way.

Consider how you currently engage with parents and how you can provide practical strategies to support learning at home.

Begin implementation planning for your chosen intervention/ next steps.

Please note that booking on to the first session date enrols you on the dates below.

Session 1 - 7th December 2021 2.00- 4.00 pm

Session 2 - 18th January 2022 2.00- 4.00 pm

Session 3 -8th February 2022 2.00- 4.00 pm

Session 4 - 22nd March 2022 2.00- 4.00 pm

Session 5 - 26th April 2022 2.00- 4.00 pm

Subscribing schools can book up to five tickets at any Extended Training (including Research Led Sheffield Core Events) at no additional cost. For non-subscribing schools attendance at each of the core programmes will cost £295 +VAT.

Research Led Sheffield - Metacognition & Self-Regulation (5 sessions)