Think of the metacognitive mirror as giving your pupils a mental looking glass. Instead of just checking if their final answer is right or wrong, it forces them to stop and look at how they actually got there. It takes the invisible act of thinking and makes it completely visible.
When you use this approach, you are helping pupils shift from just passively ticking off tasks to genuinely managing their own learning. When pupils learn to mirror their thinking, something great happens. They stop relying on you for every single next step. It bridges the gap for pupils who struggle to work independently, and it teaches them how to take a skill they learned in the classroom and apply it to a completely new problem somewhere else.
This staff meeting starter enables staff to consider how the ‘metacognitive mirror’ can be used for primary pupils through helping them to see and explain how they arrived at an answer rather than focusing on finishing the task.
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If you interested in finding out more about metacognition and how to use it effectively in the classroom, there are two training modules in EduSuite you can access. One focuses on what metacognition is and the other explore how to use metacognition in the classroom.
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