This exciting ‘Fun Philosophy Lesson’ explores the philosophical and ethical dimensions of learning, helping students aged 8-16 discover how to optimise their learning power. It is suitable for teachers of all subjects. This download uses our innovative new format for philosophy education, you can download a FREE SAMPLE by clicking here. It is one of over fifty new philosophy & ethics teaching resources that uses this format: each one can be used multiple times with the same group and features an integrated interactive menu that allows teachers to select from many different learning and assessment activities! The resource cannot be edited. This interactive and versatile session explores the following key topics include: The philosophy of learning and personal growth Identifying effective and ineffective ways of learning How emotions, environment, and relationships affect learning The impact of lifelong learning on society and the individual   The big question for this lesson is, “How can you improve your approach to learning ?” Students will engage in a variety of activities to debate and discuss other important philosophical and ethical questions, such as: What makes someone a good learner? Is failure essential to learning? Should learning be competitive or collaborative? Can creativity and critical thinking be taught, or are they innate? Is it possible to ever stop learning?   Learners will analyse and evaluate a range of claims about learning, such as: “There are things I can choose to do that will raise my levels of intelligence over time” “Meditation can make someone a more effective learner” “A healthy mind depends on a healthy body; physical fitness is important for learning” “Not all approaches to revision are equally useful” “I am responsible for how much I learn in school, not my teachers”   Designed in our unique philosophy teaching format, this resource includes an intuitive menu system for flexible lesson planning. Teachers can select from a diverse array of activities. This non-editable PowerPoint Show requires no additional preparation. Simply run the file, select your preferred activities, and deliver a meaningful and stimulating lesson! With its reusable format, it is perfect for hour-long lessons or short, thought-provoking tutor-group activities. Empower your students to unlock their full learning potential with this dynamic and reflective philosophy lesson!

This ‘Fun Philosophy Lesson’ is focused on philosophical and ethical debates around bullying. This resource is suitable for students aged 8-16 and is especially useful for Citizenship, Social Studies, Civics, and Philosophy classrooms. It is also an ideal teaching resource for enhancing your school’s SMSC (Spiritual, Moral, Social, & Cultural) education remit. As with all our resources: it can be used by teachers and educators who work in any country, and it is not tied to any particular cultural or social conception of bullying. This interactive multi-use learning session is of particular interest to teachers of Civics, Philosophy, Ethics, and Social Studies. It focuses on a wide range of topics, including: Understanding the nature and forms of bullying The ethical responsibility of bystanders Power dynamics in bullying The role of empathy and kindness in addressing bullying How to resolve bullying in ethical and restorative ways   We’ve aimed to cover as many engaging philosophical and ethical issues as possible to help young learners debate and discuss the importance of addressing bullying in their personal lives and society. The big question asked in this session is, “Why do some people become bullies whilst others do not?” Using a variety of engaging activities, students will discuss and debate other thought-provoking philosophical and ethical questions, such as: Why do some people bully others? Do bystanders have a moral duty to intervene in bullying situations? How does bullying affect the victim’s emotions and mental health? Can ignoring bullying make someone complicit? How has social media changed the nature of bullying?   Students will also analyse and evaluate a wide range of philosophical and ethical claims, such as: “Ignoring bullying makes you complicit.” “Cyberbullying is less harmful than face-to-face bullying.” “Most bullies were themselves bullied at some point in the past” “People who aren’t friends with me should be punished for it” “Worse than a bully are those who stand by and do nothing”   This session uses our unique format for philosophy teaching resources and features an integrated menu that allows teachers to select from a variety of starter, main, plenary, assessment, and end-of-lesson reflection activities. With a diverse selection of activities designed to trigger philosophical discussions, debates, and reflections, the resource can be re-used multiple times with the same group. For teachers interested in running P4C (Philosophy for Children) sessions, these resources are ideal! The file is a non-editable PowerPoint Show: no planning or preparation is required. Simply run the file, and the intuitive menu system will make delivering a powerful philosophy session easy!

This ‘Fun Philosophy Lesson’ is focused on philosophical and ethical issues that relate to literature, fiction, and poetry. This resource can be used with students aged 8-16. This download uses our innovative new format for philosophy education, you can download a FREE SAMPLE by clicking here. It is one of over fifty new philosophy & ethics teaching resources that uses this format. The resource cannot be edited. This interactive multi-use learning session is of particular interest to Teachers of English Literature; it focuses on a wide range of topics such as: The importance of fiction in human life The relationship between fiction and reality The ethical duties that authors potentially have The increasing role of AI in book-writing The personal and societal benefits that can be derived from engaging with literature Debates around censorship and the banning of books   We’ve aimed to cover as many issues as possible when it comes to finding engaging philosophical and ethical issues for young learners to debate and discuss in relation to literature! The big question asked in this session is “To what extent does human life depend on fiction?”. Using a variety of engaging activities students will discuss and debate a wide range of other philosophical and ethical questions such as: How can reading a work of fiction benefit our lives? What determines the value of s specific work of fiction? Is it possible to get too lost in works of fiction, fictional worlds, and the escapism of reading novels? If AI becomes better at writing novels than humans, why might people still prefer to read human-authored works? What is the value of ‘dystopian’ literature?   Students will also analyse and evaluate an eclectic mix of philosophical and ethical claims such as: “It’s possible to learn moral lessons from fictional stories.” “A work of fiction should never be censored or banned.” “A book can change an entire society” “I would never read a novel written by AI” “Authors must never demonise a specific group of people.”   This session uses our unique format for philosophy teaching resources and features an integrated menu that allows teachers to select from a variety of starter, main, plenary, assessment and end-of-lesson reflection activities. The file is a non-editable PowerPoint Show: no planning or preparation is required, just run the file and the intuitive menu system will make delivering a powerful philosophy session very easy!

This interactive PowerPoint uses a variety of activities to encourage student reflection and establish clear goals and targets. This resource is ideal for quick target-setting activites in lessons or for structuring multiple target-setting sessions. The PowerPoint can be used multiple times with the same groups and encourages students to reflect on targets relating to: work quality, learning power, attitude to learning, subject knowledge, study-skills and long-term strategy. The download includes both an editable file and an automated PowerPoint Show (recommended). The PowerPoint uses an integrated interactive menu that allows you to choose between thirty different activity slides (each with 3-4 activities).

**This download includes over twenty worksheets & printables that focus on target-setting! ** The download includes: 6 x full-page double-sided worksheets 6 x half-page folding worksheets 6 x half-side mini worksheets 6 x small target-setting printables (e.g. 8/page) The download includes editable .doc and easy-print .pdf formats of the worksheets. Target-Setting, Metacognition & Self-Regulate Learning Target-setting in the classroom can help to boost metacognition and self-regulated learning by providing students with clear goals and objectives that they can work towards. When students have a clear understanding of what they are working towards, they are more likely to engage in self-regulated learning behaviors such as planning, monitoring, and evaluating their own learning progress. This can help students to develop a better understanding of their own learning processes and how they can improve their performance over time. Additionally, target-setting can help to promote metacognition by encouraging students to reflect on their own learning progress and identify areas where they need to improve. By setting targets that are challenging but achievable, students can develop a sense of ownership over their own learning and become more motivated to succeed.

This download includes student reflection worksheets for the start, middle, and end of each term. The download includes nine worksheets: three for each term, covering an entire school year. This product features three different worksheet formats. Each of these colourful double-sided worksheets encourages students to engage in metacognition and self-regulated learning: At the start of each term these worksheets encourage students to reflect on how the previous term went, how they have prepared for the new term, how they can improve their learning strategies, and how they can plan for success in the new term - anticipating challenges ahead. The mid-term reflection worksheets encourage students to monitor progress, evaluate current approaches to learning, identify obstacles and reflect on how to overcome them, and anticipate the requirements of end-of-term assessments. The end-of-term reflection worksheets help students to reflect on how the term went, the progress they have made, the quantity and quality of their learning, the strengths and weaknesses in their approaches to learning, how they can improve moving forward, and how they might be best prepared for the next term. The worksheets emphasise target-setting at each stage and engage students in the self-regulated learning cycle (of planning, monitoring, evaluating, and regulating their approaches to learning. The download includes easy-print .pdf versions of the worksheets as well as editable .doc (Microsoft Word) versions in-case you need to customise them for your students.

This assessment wrapper is suitable for teachers of all subjects and is especially useful when doing practice exam papers. The assessment wrapper is delivered via PowerPoint and features fifty metacognition and self-regulated learning activity slides; twenty-five that can be used before assessments and twenty-five that can be used after assessments. 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. Simply load up this PowerPoint when you’re doing assessment work with students: it will foster metacognition through its many pre and post-assessment student reflection tasks. Assessment wrappers are a straightforward way to foster metacognition and one of the most established and well-evidenced approaches to metacognition borne out by the research literature. Alternatively, this assessment wrapper (with over fifty activity slides) can be used by teachers to enhance presentations they have already made: teachers can simply copy and paste slides from this resource into their own work – allowing for a more precise and integrated assessment wrapper effect to be used in the learning process. This assessment wrapper (or exam wrapper) is of particular interest to teachers working with students who are preparing for formal examinations (e.g. GCSE exams) and is a great way to help them get more out of practice assessments!

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.

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 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!