An exam wrapper (A.K.A. Cognitive Wrapper) is a worksheet that allows for before and after reflections when students are taking practice exam papers or undergoing assessments. This exam wrapper is suitable for all subjects and is a fantastic way to improve the value and usefulness of practice assessments. Please see the attached preview files to see the high quality of these double-sided, A4, colour, fully-editable, exam wrappers. Exam wrappers foster metacognition in students (i.e. getting to think about how they learn best and what factors are influencing their academic performance) - 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. This wrapper is designed for students aged 14-18 (KS4 & KS5) - and is designed to be fast, fun, and engaging. This download comprises one of five exam wrappers, you can buy all five versions in our bundle (linked below) and save money by doing so: using a variety of exam wrappers will help students to engage in a broader array of metacognitive reflection activities.

This whole-school collection of ten tracking worksheets is great for metacognition & self-regulated learning! Just choose two designs, print them out and have students glue them into the front and back of their exercise books! Ideal for students aged 11-16! It’s easy: at the start end end of each lesson students spend a few minutes reflecting on their learning. it’s a simple long-term metacognitive strategy that teachers of any subject can use! There are five worksheets to choose from for the front of exercise books and five worksheets to choose from for the back of them. It’s a perfect resource for sharing with the other teachers in your school because there are ten different versions, this is a great whole-school resource: if different teachers around your school use the different versions it will help to create self-regulating learners who monitor, evaluate, and regulate their learning-processes. 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.) Self-regulated Learning These resources are made and distributed in partnership with The Global Metacognition Institute. Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)

These ten worksheets are designed to accompany any main task or learning activity in lessons. They are suitable for teachers of any subject and as a whole-school resource. Please see the preview images. We’ve based the design around established metacognitive theories that emphasise four stages of metacognition: planning, monitoring, evaluation & regulation. These unique worksheets are our best yet: they help students “think about thinking” with direct reference to the learning activity they are engaged in. The pack contains ten different worksheet designs [see preview images]. When printed and cut: each worksheet is 1/3 of a page (double-sided) and serves as a powerful and time-efficient way to foster metacognition in students when they are completing a learning activity. The worksheets are suitable for teachers and students (11-16) of any subject. Metacognition is a powerful way to boost learning-power: regular use of these worksheets will help students to use metacognitive learning strategies habitually. The colourful double-sided designs look great in exercise books and it makes your work with metacognition & self-regulated learning very clear for others to see. 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 Join our Facebook Metacognition Working Group for Teachers & Leaders! https://www.facebook.com/groups/EducationalMetacognition/ Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)

This download includes four PLC templates: teachers need simply need to add the list of topics for their respective subjects and they are ready to go. On the reverse side of each learning checklist is a series of metacognitive reflection tasks and target-setting activities: this enhances the usefulness of the learning checklist and helps students to use of their self-monitoring and evaluation work to steer, direct and regulate learning. Personal Learning Checklists (PLCs) feature lists of all required learning for a unit or course: students run through the list, indicating for each topic how confident they feel in relation to it and how secure their learning is. Personal learning checklists are a fantastic example of self-regulated learning and metacognition since students can use them to monitor and evaluate their learning and then plan and regulate it accordingly. Personal Learning Checklists should be used by all teachers in all subjects: they are especially useful in subjects where students are preparing for formal summative assessments [exams] and, ideally, the list of topics on the checklist should be faithful to the exam specification they are using. Please note: the preview images depict completed templates for illustrative purposes, teachers will need to add topics for their respective subjects/units before using the PLCs.

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 download includes: A fully-resourced ‘Metacognition & Maths’ lesson (1 Hour) Front of book metacognitive planning & monitoring worksheets (x3) Back of book metacognitive evaluation & regulation worksheets (x3) Exercise book enhancers: “Help I’m Stuck!” metacognition guides (x2) Exercise book enhancers: metacognition extension questions & tasks (x2) Task specific metacognition worksheets (x10) Mid-lesson metacognition reflection worksheets (x3) End of lesson metacognition reflection worksheets (x3) Personal Learning Checklist (PLC) Templates (x2) Lesson Wrappers (x5) The Mathematics & Metacognition Debate Generator The Mathematics & Numeracy ‘Think, Pair, Share’ Discussion Generator All resources are for students aged 11-16. The lesson listed above aims to introduce metacognition to mathematics students whilst the other resources support metacognitive teaching practices in the mathematics classroom.

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 Join our Facebook Metacognition Working Group for Teachers & Leaders! https://www.facebook.com/groups/EducationalMetacognition/ Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)

This download contains ten lesson wrappers: suitable for teachers of all subjects and appropriate for students aged 11-18. Lesson wrappers encourage metacognitive reflection at the very start and very end of lessons: they help students to monitor and regulate their learning and enhance metacognitive awareness. By downloading this complete set you can cycle between lesson wrappers and give students a variety of metacognitive reflection tasks. This resource saves a great deal of planning time and is a simple way to enhance your teaching practice with the latest metacognitive strategies. Simply print out one of these ten, double-sided, colour worksheets for your students: they should complete one side at the start of the lesson and one at the end. Each side should take no more than five minutes to complete - they look great! 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 Join our Facebook Metacognition Working Group for Teachers & Leaders! https://www.facebook.com/groups/EducationalMetacognition/ Copyright Adam Godwin (2019)

This resource contains over one hundred ‘Four Corner’ discussion and debate prompts about metacognitive strategies, metacognition, and boosting learning power! In each slide students are asked a metacognitive reflection question and need to move to one of the classroom’s four corners to show their thoughts on the matter: teachers can then facilitate discussions within and between groups. It’s a fun ‘Pick up and Play’ learning activity that you can use in form-times, tutor groups, as a starter activity or just a handy end of lesson metacognition tool for when you have a few minutes to spare! Download today! It includes both an editable PowerPoint file and an auto-play PowerPoint Show - as with all our products, it includes a whole-school license so feel free to share this with other teachers in your school!

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.

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.

The Learning Power Quiz focuses on topics related to learning, self-regulation, metacognition and education; the download contains complete resources for a fun one-hour team quiz lesson. Students love team-quizzes and they’re a great way to foster engagement with new ideas, expand students’ vocabulary and build team-work skills. The Learning Power Quiz contains fifty questions that are displayed over six different rounds: Multiple Choice True or False Solve the Anagram What’s The Missing Word? Answer The Question What’s The Best Definition? The answers are revealed via the included PowerPoint presentation file after the quiz has been completed: a teacher’s answer sheet is also included. To enhance the value of the quiz in terms of metacognition and self-regulated learning each question slide also includes a student reflection extension question. Teachers can award extra points to students who give good answers to these reflection questions which will encourage students to engage in the reflection questions. The quiz is suitable for students aged 11-16 and can be differentiated for different age and ability groups by changing the size of the teams. The download includes an easy to use ‘auto-play’ version as well as an editable version for teachers who would like to make amendments. This resource is perfect for a fun end-of-term lesson for teachers hoping to inspire metacognitive reflection and self-regulated learning behaviours! Copyright The Global Metacognition Institute (2020)

Metacognitive exit tickets are quick metacognitive reflection tasks your students (11-16) can do at the end of lessons. This download includes ten printable exit ticket designs in five engaging formats. These colourful, double-sided, printables are a simple way to foster metacognition and self-regulated learning behaviours in your students. Reflections are focused on: Target setting Strengths/weakness analysis Learning-strategy analysis and regulation Self-evaluation of learning performance Metacognition is generally understood in cyclical terms: it involves planning, monitoring, regulating and evaluating thoughts, thinking and learning strategies. This resource focuses on the evaluation and regulation aspect of the metacognitive cycle. Using this resource is easy: simply give your students a ticket each at the end of the lesson - students must complete the ticket before they are allowed to leave!

Download this pack of ten printable metacognitive bookmarks today: each design is double-sided and one printed sheet created five bookmarks. This download contains ten different printable bookmark designs. Simply print them off and laminate them: they are engaging, colourful, double-sided, bookmarks designed to develop metacognitive reflection. The bookmark pack contains ten easy-print .pdf files: one page will create five bookmarks. The focus of the metacognition bookmarks is: Metacognitive Reflection Reading Strategies Reflection Questions Literacy Development These resources are suitable for students aged 8-16: they are suitable for any class is making its way through a book; more generally: all students in your school should be reading for fun and will, no doubt, own and be reading books - give them a fun new bookmark to encourage more reading! These bookmarks are ideal for teachers, educators or educational leaders.

This workbook is suitable for homework, classwork or distance learning: it will help your students to get more from watching documentaries and videos. This colourful printable booklet includes ten learning sessions spread over twenty pages. This teaching resource is designed for KS3 History and deals with topics relating to 19th & 20th century Russian history. The workbook includes links to ten different documentaries or lengthily videos and straight-forward note-taking and comprehension activities so as to structure and foster engagement with the documentary whilst enhancing student learning. The twenty-page workbook was designed with homework in mind and contains ten different homework sessions. I would suggest using the booklets as a simple way to take care of ‘every other homework’ and use it to supplement your other approaches to homework: just print the booklets out and give them to your students. You can also use the booklets just as well in a classroom setting and they are incredibly easy to use such that even a non-specialist cover-teacher could make use of them. They’re also an ideal way to bolster your distance learning provisions in times of student absence. Over time the links in this workbook may expire, I’ll try to update them from time to time but the workbook is easy to edit - so make sure you check that the links still work before printing and update any broken/defunct links that might crop-up! I’ve done my best to include links to the best videos available for this topic: teachers should ensure that the video links included are suitable for their specific classes.

This workbook is suitable for homework, classwork or distance learning: it will help your students to get more from watching documentaries and videos. This colourful printable booklet includes ten learning sessions spread over twenty pages. This teaching resource is designed for KS3 History and deals with topics relating to Ancient Chinese History. The workbook includes links to ten different documentaries or lengthily videos and straight-forward note-taking and comprehension activities so as to structure and foster engagement with the documentary whilst enhancing student learning. The twenty-page workbook was designed with homework in mind and contains ten different homework sessions. I would suggest using the booklets as a simple way to take care of ‘every other homework’ and use it to supplement your other approaches to homework: just print the booklets out and give them to your students. You can also use the booklets just as well in a classroom setting and they are incredibly easy to use such that even a non-specialist cover-teacher could make use of them. They’re also an ideal way to bolster your distance learning provisions in times of student absence. Over time the links in this workbook may expire, I’ll try to update them from time to time but the workbook is easy to edit - so make sure you check that the links still work before printing and update any broken/defunct links that might crop-up! I’ve done my best to include links to the best videos available for this topic: teachers should ensure that the video links included are suitable for their specific classes.