Metacognitive Tools for SEND
Full Course
Online
Consultant-led
Applying metacognitive visual tools to scaffold and extend thinking in the inclusion context.
Next Course Dates – Cohort 4: (UK Time)
Session 1 – 3.45 – 5.45 pm – 1st May, 2025
Session 2 – 3:45 – 5:45 pm – 15th May, 2025
Session 3 – 3:45 – 5:45 pm – 19th June, 2025
Current Course – Cohort 3 – In process: (UK Time)
Session 1 – 3.45 – 5.45 pm – 6th February, 2025
Session 2 – 3:45 – 5:45 pm – 27th February, 2025
Session 3 – 3:45 – 5:45 pm – 8th May, 2025
This course will seek to make links between theory and classroom practice by exploring how an understanding of relevant aspects of the Science of Learning can inform pedagogy and approaches to learning. A variety of questioning strategies and thinking routines will be introduced, however the key focus will be on deepening understanding of how Thinking Frames can be utilised as common visual tools to scaffold and extend thinking in the inclusion context. More on metacognitive tools for SEND
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Special Educational Needs Coordinators (SENCos), SEND Teachers and those who are interested in exploring how a range of tools and strategies can be used to support the development of metacognition and self-regulated learners with additional needs.
Each course will consist of three x two-hour modules, facilitated using Zoom. The first two of these sessions seek to explore key metacognitive tools and strategies and participants are then encouraged to introduce these in their classroom practice over the following term. The final session will then take place a term later, providing an opportunity to review experiences and to consider how the tools can be used to further deepen and extend students’ thinking.
The training will be facilitated by an experienced TM consultant and will provide opportunity for participants to interact, reflect, share thoughts and outcomes of activities and to clarify thinking. There will be opportunity to network with SENCos and SEND teachers from different schools. The format will include a combination of presentation, practical activities and opportunity for sharing practice and for discussion and reflection.
N.B. As participants will be expected to engage in discussion during the online sessions, access to a device with a working microphone and camera is essential.
Participants will receive a TM certificate on completion of the course.
Online Course: £85 (+vat) / person
15% TSN Members Discount
In addition to the training, delegates will also receive all required resources and ongoing consultant advice via telephone or email during the programme.
Thinking Matters reserves the right to postpone the course should there not be enough delegates to make it viable.
” Thinking Frames are an absolutely fantastic tool for SEND, in fact all our learners. They make it so easy for them to break down tasks into manageable chunks. ”