How to Create Autonomous Learners : Teaching Metacognitive, Self-regulatory and Study Skills - a Practitioner's Guide

Taryn Moir

ISBN 10: 1032325836 / ISBN 13: 9781032325835

Published by Routledge, 2022

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - To achieve their full potential, it is essential that children develop skills to become autonomous learners, yet this skill does not come naturally to many learners. This book is a practical teaching and planning guide to the theory, practice and the implementation of evidence-based approaches to develop essential metacognitive and self-study skills. How to Create Autonomous Learners explains how to get students, parents and partners on board and how to implement these ideas across a class, school, or consortium. Areas covered include:- How to get children and young people ready to learn.- Why it is important to teach learning strategies. - Encouraging children to become more active in the process of learning while also nurturing the development of creativity.- How to harness learner motivation as metacognition and motivation are highly linked.Easily applicable in any classroom, this essential resource supports children's development of important metacognitive, self-regulatory and self-study skills, and provides teachers and school leaders with evidence-based approaches for implementing these ideas with the support of parents, students and partners.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Create Autonomous Learners : Teaching Metacognitive, Self-regulatory and Study Skills - a Practitioner's Guide
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032325836
• ISBN 13: 9781032325835
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

To achieve their full potential, it is essential that children develop skills to become autonomous learners, yet this skill does not come naturally to many learners. This book is a practical teaching and planning guide to the theory, practice and the implementation of evidence-based approaches to develop essential metacognitive and self-study skills.

How to Create Autonomous Learners explains how to get students, parents and partners on board and how to implement these ideas across a class, school, or consortium. Areas covered include:

• How to get children and young people ready to learn.

• Why it is important to teach learning strategies.

• Encouraging children to become more active in the process of learning while also nurturing the development of creativity.

• How to harness learner motivation as metacognition and motivation are highly linked.

Easily applicable in any classroom, this essential resource supports children’s development of important metacognitive, self-regulatory and self-study skills, and provides teachers and school leaders with evidence-based approaches for implementing these ideas with the support of parents, students and partners.

About the Author

Taryn Moir is a Practitioner Senior Educational Psychologist practicing within a local authority and responsible for project work, policy development and in-service training for a large number of primary and secondary schools. She was a lecturer on the Educational Psychology course at the University of Strathclyde and is now an assessor and supervisor for the Level 2 Qualification of Educational Psychology Scotland. Taryn is also Review Editor for two international journals: Frontiers in Education, Special Educational Needs section and Cogent Education.