How we do it
Metacognition sessions will ultimately teach age appropriate concepts that support your child’s academic progress. However, this is not the point of these sessions.
As teachers, we aim to be the facilitators of excellent learning behaviours. Children are not empty vessels to be filled and developing a child’s agency to recognise their own strengths, challenges, and strategies is the ultimate goal. Metacognition teaching support children to excel at their strengths further, and offer management strategies for challenges, in order for children to become independent, curious and resilient.
So what actually happens in these sessions?
- Explore (and build) resources that support memory
- Think about how our environment preferences can impact our performance- the school setting is not made for everyone!
- Explore our individual personalities and how these traits interact with learning patterns
- Learn how we can apply learning about things that we enjoy, to being more efficient in our engagement with tasks that we don’t
- Taking information and exploring different strategies to move this from the short term memory into the long term memory
- Increased self awareness of learning profile and the development of channels for continued progress, long after intervention has ended!
While all lessons provided by Arora Education embed assessment for learning and self-assessment, these sessions are exclusively dedicated time to thinking about individuality, and the research of what impactful study skills look like,. They champion the importance of a life of balance including sport, music and friendship, as safety tools worth nurturing for a life of success in its broadest sense. They also look at the research of how balance really do support progress and memory!
Education Endowment Foundation’s Recommendations have been incorporated into all metacognition sessions, as seen below.
These are small group lessons of up to six children and availability is limited. Private sessions can be considered.
