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Resources for Religious Studies, Sociology, Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities.
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Resources for Religious Studies, Sociology, Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities.
We specialise in making whole units and courses for ultimate convenience and time-saving. We always aim to make the best resource for a given topic: our goal is perfection and our resources have helped educate 1 million+ students!
In order to encourage ratings and reviews, if you buy any of our products, are happy with your purchase, and leave a 5* rating for it: just email us and we'll send you a free bonus gift!
This toolkit will help you to develop study skills with your students; it uses a self-regulated learning approach which encourages students to plan, monitor, evaluate and regulate their approach to study skill development.
The download includes:
A study-skills reflection workbook
A knowledge-hunt lesson about study skills for use with the workbook
An additional interactive multi-use lesson focused on study skills
The resource draws on pedagogical approaches such as: reflective learning, independent learning, metacognition and self-regulated learning.
The development of study skills is a crucial aspect of self-regulated learning for students. Self-regulated learning refers to the ability to effectively plan, monitor, and evaluate one’s own learning process. By acquiring and honing study skills, students gain the tools necessary to take control of their own education.
Study skills enable students to approach their studies with intention and purpose, allowing them to set clear goals, manage their time effectively, and employ effective strategies for comprehension and retention. Additionally, study skills empower students to adapt their learning strategies to suit different subjects and learning environments. By becoming self-regulated learners through the cultivation of study skills, students not only enhance their academic performance but also develop valuable lifelong skills that can be applied in various aspects of their personal and professional lives.
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This collection of teaching resources and lesson plans will help your students to develop their study skills!**
This huge pack of twenty substantial teaching resources is focused on metacognition and self-regulated learning. The resources are designed with students aged 11-16 in mind and are suitable for teachers of all school subjects.
This comprehensive solution to metacognitive pedagogy is perfect for individual teachers and for whole-school improvement. The download bundle includes:
A fully resourced lesson that introduces metacognition & self-regulated learning
10 x Lesson Wrapper Worksheets
A Virtual Lesson Wrapper (50 Activity Slides!)
An Assessment Wrapper Worksheet
A Virtual Assessment Wrapper (50 Activity Slides)
Task-Focus Metacognition Worksheets
Metacognitive Exit Tickets
Metacognition Workbook Enhancers (Inlays for the front and back of workbooks)
Metacognition Bookmarks
Metacognition & Self-Regulated Learning Discussion Generator (300 questions!)
Metacognition & Self-Regulated Learning Debate Generator (100 Active Debates)
Metacognition Tracking Worksheets
Metacognition & Self-Regulated Learning Workbook (100+ pages!)
Metacognition & Self-Regulated Learning Journal (Daily Reflection Activity Journal)
Large Metacognitive Reflection Worksheets (x5)
Standard Metacognitive Reflection Worksheets (x5)
Mini Metacognitive Reflection Worksheets (x10)
DIRT Worksheet Collection (Dedicated Improvement & Reflection Time)
Self-Regulated Learning: Revision Strategy Battle Planner
Metacognition & Self-Regulated Learning: Reflective Essay Writing Toolkit
This collection of teaching tools represents our best-selling metacognition and self-regulated learning educational resources; the resources were produced on behalf, and are distributed with the permission of, The Global Metacognition Institute (globalmetacognition.com).
These resources will allow you to:
Boost metacognition
Encourage self-regulated learning behaviours
Encourage students to reflect deeply on how they learn best and how they can improve their approach to learning
Get students to use the metacognitive cycle of planning, monitoring, evaluating and regulating their approach to learning
Create more independent learners with the skills required for lifelong learning
Make use of innovative new metacognitive strategies
It’s a perfect bundle for any teachers and educational leaders who are hoping to enhance their approach to metacognition and self-regulated learning!
Download today to permanently enhance your teaching practice!
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This metacognition teaching resource serves two primary functions:
To teach students how to use the metacognitive cycle (planning, monitoring, evaluating and regulating) in relation to essay-writing: developing essay-writing skills
To use essay-writing tasks as a way to encourage metacognitive reflection and help students gain metacognitive knowledge: developing metacognitive and self-regulated learning skills
The download includes an interactive PowerPoint presentation that can be used for multiple (x12) one-hour learning sessions as well as an accompanying information sheet about using metacognitive strategies for essay writing.
The learning sessions guide students through the essay writing process and dedicate time to planning, monitoring, evaluating and regulating the essay writing process. Twelve metacognitive/ self-regulated learning reflection topic options are provided with hints as to what students might want to include in their essays. The topics are:
Building On My Strengths & Weaknesses in This Subject
Effective Revision & Exam Preparation Strategies
How To Learn More During Lessons
How My Behaviour Impacts My Learning & My Rate of Progress
How Do My Emotions, Moods & Attitudes Impact My Learning?
Metacognition, Self-Regulation & Independent Learning in This Subject
What Could I Do Differently In Order to Maximise Learning?
How To Boost My Learning Power
The Ideal State of Mind for Learning & How I Can Cultivate It
My Obstacles to Learning & How I Plan To Overcome Them
Factors That Influence My Ability to Learn and Remember Learning
What Approach to Learning Works Best For Me
Essay topics 1-6 are subject-specific and can be used by teachers of any subject to foster metacognition and lead students towards metacognitive knowledge their particular school subject whilst essay topics 6-12 are general metacognitive reflection rubrics.
Aside from metacognition and self-regulated learning, we hope to work with educators towards building greater levels of learner autonomy in students: to this end the essay-writing session instructions also guide students towards developing their own assessment criteria that they (at the end of each session) will use to evaluate their own work. This approach ties in neatly with the ‘planning’ stage of the metacognitive cycle and helps students to consider the task requirements before engaging with it.
Teacher instructions are included (integrated into the PowerPoint file), the general lesson plan when using this tool is as follows:
Introduction/Lesson Objectives
Assessment Criteria Creation
Essay Planning Stage
Essay Writing Task (With Monitoring Break)
Evaluation Stage
Regulation & Target Setting Stage
The resource will help students to cultivate essay-writing skills whilst fostering metacognitive reflection: steering students towards metacognitive knowledge about their own learning processes and how to improve them.
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.
After the huge success of our printable lesson wrappers, we wanted to make a lesson wrapper teachers could use that would require no printing: a virtual lesson wrapper. This saves time (since no printing is required) and it saves resources which is good for both the environment and the budget.
This lesson wrapper is delivered via PowerPoint and features fifty metacognition and self-regulated learning activity slides; twenty-five that can be used at the start of lessons and twenty-five that can be used at the end of lessons.
It also features an interactive ‘randomiser’ feature so that teachers can quickly load up the PowerPoint and generate random reflection tasks for the start and end of lessons.
For simplicity and convenient this download includes:
The Virtual Lesson Wrapper Generator [Auto-Play Version]
The Virtual Lesson Wrapper Generator [Editable Version]
Teachers can load The Virtual Lesson Wrapper Generator alongside the resources they are using for there lessons. The download also includes separate files so that teachers can easily copy and paste any of the slides into their own presentations, incorporating metacognitive and self-regulated learning reflection activities into the lessons they have already prepared.
This professionally designed lesson introduces metacognition & self-regulated learning to students aged 11-16.
The lesson is fully resourced and contains:
A PowerPoint Presentation
A Double-Sided Colour Worksheet (A4)
A Lesson Plan
The learning objectives of this lesson are as follows:
Describe What Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) Involves
Explain What Metacognition Is And Why It’s Important
Evaluate Different Approaches To Metacognition & Self-Regulated Learning
The lesson is designed to last for a 1-hour teaching session: it includes a hook, learning objectives, starter activities, essential information, main activities (on the included worksheet), assessment for learning tasks and debate/discussion tasks. You can take a look at some sample slides from the presentation here and read the lesson plan here.
This download is ideal for teachers and educators looking for a comprehensive introduction to metacognition and self-regulated learning that can be delivered in one lesson: it’s a great way to introduce these important concepts to your students and get them engaging in relevant reflection activities!
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.
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 :)
You’ve probably already heard of ‘Think, Pair, Share’ as an effective way to manage classroom discussions whilst promoting individual reflection: such an approach is widely cited as an effective way to engage students in metacognition and metacognitive reflection.
This 100+ slide PowerPoint contains over 300 metacognitive reflection questions making it the definitive ‘Think, Pair, Share’ metacognition discussion resource. You can save loads of time by downloading this today, it includes a whole-school license so that you can share it with the other teachers in your school!
It’s great for use:
During form/tutor time
As a starter activity
At the end of lessons to make good use of spare time
The questions are not subject-specific (although some do refer to literacy and numeracy) and the PowerPoint includes a ‘Randomiser’ slide: this allows you to instantly conjure new metacognitive reflection questions for class discussions and allows you to use this resource many times with the same group!
We’ve spent lots of time to make this the definitive Think-Pair-Share metacognition resource: make sure you check out the engaging and colourful design using the preview images above!
Thank you for looking at our resources! Make sure to download some of our free samples: just visit globalmetacognition.com
We offer a range of whole-school metacognition resources that aim to enhance metacognitive skills and strategies in students aged 11-16. You can download individual resources or buy our ‘Whole School Metacognition Toolkits’ that make establishing a whole-school metacognition initiative easy.
Our resources specialise in:
Boosting Learning-Power
Teaching Metacognitive Skills & Strategies
Increasing Metacognitive Power (Intelligence, Memory etc.)
These resources are made and distributed in partnership with The Global Metacognition Institute.
Find more metacognition resources at globalmetacognition.com
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Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)
This bundle contains all five of our new exam wrappers (aka cognitive wrappers, assessment wrappers).
All of these exam wrappers are: A4, double-sided, colour, and editable. We have included both .doc and .pdf versions to aid with printing.
This bundle now also includes our zero-print ‘Virtual Assessment Wrapper’ which features fifty slides of student reflection activities for before and after assessments!
Exam wrappers foster metacognition in students (i.e. getting to think about how they learn best and what factors are influencing their academic performance) - use of exam wrappers are frequently cited by researchers as an example of effective metacognition in schools.
It is widely accepted that the use of exam wrappers is “best practice”, yet there are very few available online and those that exist are often for university students and not suitable for younger people. These wrappers are designed for students aged 14-18 (KS4 & KS5) - and are designed to be fast, fun, and engaging.
This download comprises all five of our exam wrappers, buying them in this bundle saves money and the variety of exam wrappers will help students to engage in a broader array of metacognitive reflection activities and help maintain engagement.
For your convenience, we have also included some of our other metacognition sample resources in this bundle.
Meditation is a form of “deep-metacognition”. Our meditation resource kit focuses on boosting learning-power, we see meditation as a metacognitive tool that allows students to gain insights about thinking and learning directly.
This resource pack includes everything you need to introduce meditation to your classes or on a whole-school basis: the focus of our meditation resources is, specifically, boosting learning-power.
We’ve also included six free bonus metacognition resources in this pack! All resources are designed for KS3 & KS4 students.
Check our our other metacognition downloads at globalmetacognition.com
You can download our largest bundle, designed for whole-school metacognition initiatives, here!
All resources are copyrighted by and distributed on behalf of The Global Metacognition Institute.
Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)
This pack includes comprehensive resources to improve learning-power across your school through meditation, mind-mapping skills & PSHE resources that focus on brain-development! It’s ideal for:
Enhancing metacognitive strategies
Improved metacognitive reflection & awareness
Increased student learning power
It is of particular interest to head-teachers, school leadership, and department heads looking to improve pedagogy across the board or individual teachers looking to develop their use of metacognition in lessons.
This resource pack includes:
Boosting Brain Power Unit
Meditation & Metacognition Unit
Metacognition & Mind-Mapping Unit
Metacognition Worksheets
Each of the above units is a fairly substantial set of resources in-and-of itself: together you have powerful tools for the enhancement of learning-power in your school.
We’ve also included six free bonus metacognition resources in this pack! All resources are designed for KS3 & KS4 students.
Check our our other metacognition downloads at globalmetacognition.com
You can download our largest bundle, designed for whole-school metacognition initiatives, here!
All resources are copyrighted by and distributed on behalf of The Global Metacognition Institute.
Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)
Save 50% with this Whole-School Metacognition Resource Pack! It’s ideal for:
Enhancing metacognitive strategies
Improved metacognitive reflection & awareness
Increased learning power
It is of particular interest to educational leaders looking for whole-school metacognition resources, department heads looking to improve pedagogy across their team or individual teachers looking to develop their use of metacognition in lessons.
This resource pack includes:
Metacognition Reflection Worksheets
Teaching Sessions (A3 Debate Worksheet Lessons)
10 x Metacognition Posters
The Metacognitive Debate Generator
Metacognition Assemblies
We’ve also included six free bonus metacognition resources in this pack! All resources are designed for KS3 & KS4 students.
Check our our other metacognition downloads at globalmetacognition.com
You can download our largest bundle, designed for whole-school metacognition initiatives, here!
All resources are copyrighted by and distributed on behalf of The Global Metacognition Institute.
Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)
Save over 50% with this Metacognition CPD Resource Pack! It’s ideal for:
Enhancing metacognitive teaching strategies
Improved professional practice & CPD
Increased learning power in students
It is of particular interest to department heads looking to improve pedagogy across their team or individual teachers looking to develop their use of metacognition in lessons.
This resource pack includes:
DIRT Worksheets
Metacognitive Reflection Tasks
‘Sticky-Note Challenge’ (Metacognition)
Questioning Skills Training Sessions
Video-Learning Metacognition Pack
The Pedagogical Debate Generator
We’ve also included seven free bonus metacognition and CPD resources in this pack! All resources are designed for KS3 & KS4 students.
Check our our other metacognition downloads at globalmetacognition.com
You can download our largest bundle, designed for whole-school metacognition initiatives, here!
All resources are copyrighted by and distributed on behalf of The Global Metacognition Institute.
Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)
Save 50% with this Metacognition Fun Pack! It’s ideal for:
Enhancing metacognitive strategies
Improved metacognitive reflection & awareness
Increased learning power
It is of particular interest to department heads looking to improve pedagogy across their team or individual teachers looking to develop their use of metacognition in lessons.
This resource pack includes:
20 x P4C/Critical Thinking Sessions
Metacognition Knowledge Hunt Sessions
Metacognition Mini-Worksheets (x10)
Metacognition Posters
The Sticky-Note Challenge!
Metacognitive Thuink Generator
We’ve also included six free bonus metacognition resources in this pack! All resources are designed for KS3 & KS4 students.
Check our our other metacognition downloads at globalmetacognition.com
You can download our largest bundle, designed for whole-school metacognition initiatives, here!
All resources are copyrighted by and distributed on behalf of The Global Metacognition Institute.
Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)
Improve your whole department with these easy-to-use resources! They’re great for:
Enhancing metacognitive strategies
Improved metacognitive reflection & awareness
Increased learning power
It is of particular interest to department heads looking to improve pedagogy across their team or individual teachers looking to develop their use of metacognition in lessons.
This resource pack includes:
The Metacognitive Debate Generator
20 x DIRT/Metacognition Worksheets
Metacognition Posters
The Metacognitive Think Generator
We’ve also included six free bonus metacognition resources in this pack! All resources are designed for KS3 & KS4 students.
Check our our other metacognition downloads at globalmetacognition.com
You can download our largest bundle, designed for whole-school metacognition initiatives, here!
All resources are copyrighted by and distributed on behalf of The Global Metacognition Institute.
Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)
Save 50% with this Metacognition Resource Pack for new teachers! It’s ideal for:
Enhancing metacognitive strategies
Improved metacognitive reflection & awareness
Increased learning power
It is of particular interest to department heads looking to improve pedagogy across their team or individual teachers looking to develop their use of metacognition in lessons.
This resource pack includes:
A large selection of metacognition worksheets
Metacognition knowlege-hunt sessions
Metacognition A3 debate worksheet sessions
The Metacognitive Debate Generator
We’ve also included six free bonus metacognition resources in this pack! All resources are designed for KS3 & KS4 students.
Check our our other metacognition downloads at globalmetacognition.com
You can download our largest bundle, designed for whole-school metacognition initiatives, here!
All resources are copyrighted by and distributed on behalf of The Global Metacognition Institute.
Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)
Save over 70% with this Metacognition Resource Pack for PSHE teachers and leaders! It’s ideal for:
Enhancing metacognitive strategies
Improved metacognitive reflection & awareness
Increased learning power
It’s great for both form-times and longer PSHE sessions; it’s a comprehensive and diverse suite of innovative teaching resources!
It is of particular interest to PSHE leaders looking to improve pedagogy across their school.
This resource pack includes:
‘Boosting Brain Power’ (All about caring for the brain and helping it to develop normally)
Meditation & Metacognition (Resource Pack!)
The PSHE Debate Generator
Metacognition Assembly Pack
Metacognition Posters
P4C/Philosophy Tools
We’ve also included six free bonus metacognition resources in this pack! All resources are designed for KS3 & KS4 students.
Check our our other metacognition downloads at globalmetacognition.com
You can download our largest bundle, designed for whole-school metacognition initiatives, here!
All resources are copyrighted by and distributed on behalf of The Global Metacognition Institute.
Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)
Save 50% with this Metacognition Resource Pack for teachers of students aged 11-16! It’s ideal for:
Enhancing metacognitive strategies
Improved metacognitive reflection & awareness
Increased learning power
It is of particular interest to department heads looking to improve pedagogy across their team or individual teachers looking to develop their use of metacognition in lessons.
This resource pack includes:
Metacognition Debate Generator
Metacognition Thunk Generator
Metacognition Knowledge Hunt Sessions
Metacognition A3 Debate Worksheet Sessions
A3 Metacognitive Personal Reflection Worksheets
Metacognition Reading Comprehension Tasks
We’ve also included six free bonus metacognition resources in this pack! All resources are designed for KS3 & KS4 students.
Check our our other metacognition downloads at globalmetacognition.com
You can download our largest bundle, designed for whole-school metacognition initiatives, here!
All resources are copyrighted by and distributed on behalf of The Global Metacognition Institute.
Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)
Save 50% with this ‘Study Skills Improvement’ resource pack! It’s ideal for:
Enhancing metacognitive strategies
Improved metacognitive reflection & awareness
Increased learning power
It is of particular interest to department heads looking to improve pedagogy across their team or individual teachers looking to develop their use of metacognition in lessons.
This resource pack includes:
Meditation for Learning Power (10 Resource Pack!)
Mind-Mapping Skills Training Unit
Metacognition Knolwedge hunts
Questioning Skills Training Sessions
Metacognition Reflection Worksheet
We’ve also included six free bonus metacognition resources in this pack! All resources are designed for KS3 & KS4 students.
Check our our other metacognition downloads at globalmetacognition.com
You can download our largest bundle, designed for whole-school metacognition initiatives, here!
All resources are copyrighted by and distributed on behalf of The Global Metacognition Institute.
Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)