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

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.

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.