We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time. Find out more

Oxford Education Blog

The latest news and views on education from Oxford University Press.

Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • Early Years
  • Primary
  • Secondary
    • English
    • Geography
    • History
    • Maths
    • MFL: Teaching Languages Today
    • Psychology
    • RE
    • Science
  • Children’s
  • Primary
  • International Education
  • About

metacognition

Developing metacognition through the science curriculum

March 31, 2022March 30, 2022Oxford Science Team
Developing metacognition through science curriculum

Dr Andy Chandler-Grevatt discusses the challenges of improving science curriculum and argues that there are many strategies to support developing metacognition and self-regulation.

Read more

Using research-based evidence to inspire our new curriculum

March 23, 2022March 22, 2022Oxford Secondary

As the winter months start to recede, the education community is faced with the reality that so far this year, teaching and learning continues to be dominated, in a wide variety of ways, by Covid. The prevalence of the Omicron variant has resulted in a high incidence of teacher and student absences and many learners […]

Read more

A positive outlook for the new Oxford Smart Curriculum

March 2, 2022March 2, 2022Oxford Education

You may recall that we launched the Oxford Smart Curriculum direction paper last May. Our aim was to ensure that this was a collaborative effort, so we invited educators and policy-makers working within the educational sector to provide feedback by completing a short questionnaire. With your input, we have been able to strengthen our shared […]

Read more

Metacognitive Modelling – Where Does it Fit in the Classroom?

September 20, 2021October 11, 2021Oxford Science Team
metacognitive-modelling-where-does-it-fit-in-the-classroom

Modelling is something that we are doing lesson in, lesson out. Day in, day out. Come rain or shine, we’re modelling something! Despite the fact that it is something that we do several times a day and dozens of times a week, it is still something that we can improve on as a teaching profession. […]

Read more

Metacognitive strategies in the science classroom by Lauren Stephenson

July 15, 2021July 15, 2021Oxford Science Team
Metacognitive strategies

Metacognition has become a bit of a buzz word of late, often grouped in with the latest resource or strategy that does the rounds online. But, is it worth all the hype and how can you incorporate it into your science classroom? Metacognition is commonly referred to as ‘learning to learn’ and it is where […]

Read more

Learning processes: focus on metacognition

June 21, 2021June 21, 2021Oxford Science Team
Metacognition strategies

Following on from her appearance on the Oxford Education Podcast, Zoe Enser explores metacognition in more detail and how student wellbeing can benefit from embedding these practices. As teachers we are often experts in thinking about our own learning processes. Having been generally successful in the education system, many of us have automated this and […]

Read more

How to successfully implement metacognition in your classroom

February 2, 2021April 1, 2022Oxford Science Team
Metacognition strategies

In my experience over the past few years of researching metacognition and delivering CPD to teachers, it seems the biggest issue teachers have with metacognition is not the theory itself, or even the strategies for applying it in the classroom, but rather the barriers to successful implementation. With the best will in the world, and […]

Read more

Creating a metacognitive classroom

January 6, 2021May 6, 2022Oxford English Team

Metacognition is about pupils’ ability to monitor and direct their own learning. The concept of metacognition has been around for a long time, but seems to be having a revival recently, perhaps in part owing to some of the challenges presented by lockdown. Beyond the nightmare navigation of zooms, screen sharing and behaviour management from […]

Read more

Evidence Points To Conscious ‘Metacognition’ In Some Nonhuman Animals

September 18, 2009March 9, 2017Adrian Frost

( Link )

Read more
Subscribe by email

Subjects

A Level A Level Psychology assessment authors Back to school Ben Crystal book list book recommendations children's authors children's books children's dictionaries children's fiction classroom closing the word gap comprehension COVID-19 critical thinking curriculum david crystal definitions Dictionaries dictionary Digital drama ed-tech Education english English Literature ethics exam preparation exams false friends GCSE guided reading history History teacher home learning independent reading Jill Carter knowledge questions KS1 KS2 KS3 language learning literacy Mastery mathematics maths maths education maths mastery media memory mental health methodology MFL MFL Teachers natural sciences non-fiction Ofsted perspectives Phonics post-sats primary primary maths psychology reading reading development reading for pleasure reading list remote learning remote teaching revision Sam Holyman science secondary secondary education shakespeare Shakespeare400 shared knowledge student wellbeing teaching teaching ideas Teaching Strategies teaching tips technology TOK emotion TOK intuition TOK language TOK reason TOK sense perception transition truth Vocabulary vocabulary building wellbeing Word Gap words world book day writing

Recent comments

  • yulyyuly on Three ways to employ disciplinary literacy strategies in your classroom
  • shaik12345 on How independent project-based qualifications can empower students affected by disrupted learning

Archives

Useful links

  • Oxford Owl Blog
  • Privacy Policy
  • Legal Notice
  • Cookie Policy

Recent posts

  • How to introduce a new KS3 class reader
  • Vocabulary Teaching: Giving Students a Voice
  • Supporting young people’s wellbeing through their 2022 exams
  • Inclusive Classrooms: The positive impact of using British Sign Language in the classroom

Categories

Top Posts & Pages

  • Prepare | Revise | Achieve: preparing for your assessment revision
  • Why is planning so important for effective teaching?
  • Prepare | Revise | Achieve: making the most of revision time
  • Character Insight: Friar Lawrence
  • Prepare | Revise | Achieve: maximise your potential during the examination period
  • Character Insights: Gerald Croft
  • The Alchemist Symbol
  • Vocabulary Teaching: Giving Students a Voice
  • Number of atoms in the universe
  • Your guide to starting a book club in your school
 

Loading Comments...