Education

Metacognition

The Neglected Skill Set for Empowering Students

by Robin Fogarty, Brian Pete

Description

How do we prepare our students for the test of life? We teach them how to learn when they are not being taught! In other words, we give them the gift of self-reflection, self-awareness, self-initiative, self-direction, self-assessment and self-regulation – the gift of knowing when they know, and when they don’t know.


Metacognition: The neglected skill set for empowering students is written with the teacher in mind. It is more practical than theoretical, but most definitely grounded in research findings and connected to emergent data.


With the thirty ready-to-use metacognitive strategies in this book, teachers will deepen learning for their students through explicit reflections on planning, monitoring and evaluating their own work. As students learn how to ‘think about their own thinking’, they become more aware and, thus, better able to make adjustments on their own work. They gain a sense of ownership, and teachers get results they can count on through student empowerment.


Metacognition is like magic for twenty-first century classrooms – it changes student behaviours before your eyes.

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Rights held: Worldwide
Rights sold: US, Canada, Ireland

Author Biography

Robin Fogarty, PhD, is president of Robin Fogarty & Associates and a leading educational consultant. She works with educators throughout the world in curriculum, instruction and assessment strategies. Her roles include school administrator and consultant with state departments and ministries of education in the United States, Peurto Rico, Russia, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Great Britain, Singapore, Korea and the Netherlands. Robin earned a doctorate in curriculum and human resource development from Loyola University Chicago, a master’s in instructional strategies from National Louis University and a bachelor’s in early childhood education from the State University of New York at Potsdam.


Brian Pete is cofounder and CEO of Robin Fogarty & Associates. He has a rich background in professional development and has worked with adult learners in districts and educational agencies throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Brian has an eye for the teachable moment and the words to describe skillful teaching. He delivers dynamic, humour-filled sessions that energise audiences of school leaders, teachers and teacher leaders with engaging strategies that transfer into immediate and practical on-site applications. Brian earned a Bachelor of Science from DePaul University in Chicago.

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Copyright © 2018 Hawker Brownlow Education

Hawker Brownlow Education

Hawker Brownlow Education

Hawker Brownlow Education, a Solution Tree company, is Australasia’s leading provider of educational resources, events and professional development services. Since 1985, we have empowered F–12 teachers and educational professionals with the tools and skills they need to improve classrooms and raise student achievement. From our head office in Melbourne, we publish the latest and best-regarded educational thinking from around the region and the world, releasing over 300 new titles and printing over 100 000 publications each year to support educational professionals. Our publications can be found on the shelves of over 9200 schools across Australia and New Zealand, in addition to reaching educational professionals in over 50 countries globally. We train and inspire thousands of educational professionals through major annual conferences, regional events and in-school support, delivering over 2000 hours of professional development each year. For more, visit www.hbe.com.au and follow @HawkerBrownlow on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher Hawker Brownlow Education
  • Publication Date May 2018
  • Orginal LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9781760566005
  • Publication Country or regionAustralia
  • FormatPaperback
  • Primary Price 49.95 AUD
  • Pages280
  • ReadershipPrimary and Secondary Education
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Edition1
  • Copyright Year2018
  • Dimensions250 x 180 mm
  • IllustrationOne colour
  • Reference CodeHB6005

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