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Welcome! Educators work hard to help their students succeed. An understanding of memory and metacognition can help make learning and teaching activities more effective, and ensure that students develop lasting knowledge and skills.
Dr Jonathan Firth is an academic and author, and his weekly updates are accessible and evidence-based. They're free to all readers, and will remain free. Become an evidence based practitioner!
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Books on the science of learning
You can delve further into Jonathan Firth’s work via his books. Metacognition and Study Skills: A Guide for Teachers explores how metacognition is rooted in how we use memory. It includes:
an overview of the concept and its links with cognitive science
‘quick start’ strategies
approaches that focus on what happens before, during and after classroom tasks
metacognition and literacy
study skills
building a metacognitive classroom and school culture
Find out more via Amazon: UK, USA, Spain. Or visit the Routledge website.
Find out more about this and all of Jonathan’s other books via this page on his personal website.
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