Nathan Burns

🧠 The new EEF Metacognition Report is out — but what does it mean for classrooms?

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Metacognition for all- Thinking about Thinking for all - Michelle Haywood Metacognition For All - Thinking About Thinking for All with Nathan Burns.Metacognition is a hugely important part of effective learning, for all students. The crucial word here, is all. This 60-minut...

How we support our SEN students develop their metacognitive skills is huge. I'm glad that this area is getting more focus now, since the updated EEF report.
On Monday I will be unpacking exactly how we can support our SEN students in developing their metacognitive skills
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Something a little (big!) big surreal about being asked to send signed copies of your book to support a school on their metacognitive journey!

Such a pleasure to be asked to provide a set of books to support a superb primary in the North West!

Topping and tailing the day today with ITT! Starting the day with my 4 Maths trainees, exploring NCETM checkpoints (a great 90 minutes despite them all having colds!), then finishing the day by signing off my final Best Practice Network trainee!

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*NEW* Parental Guide to Metacognition

I've created a 6 page guide, specifically for parents/carers, all around the importance of metacognition, alongside almost a dozen approaches that can be incorporated at home (with examples).

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NW London Teaching Hub! Bit of a commute but a great team!

They're a great bunch and an absolute pleasure to work with!

Indeed!!

Facilitating for my trainees in North London! Great bunch!

Been doing facilitation and Lead Mentor work for TF for just over 12 months now!

Leading a TF session this morning around coherency (evidence below that I took things quite far on breaking down linear equations...) and then an afternoon with the North Lincs SCITT - covering self reg, metac, modelling and supporting SEN students. Amazing feedback already in from trainees!

Friday: Delivering keynotes and 5 workshops to 170 trainees at the University of Bedford.

Sunday: Replying to loads of emails from these trainees, sharing ideas, asking for further readings and wanting to dig into metacognition even more!

Absolutely brilliant 👏

'Ello 'Ello... there's an updated EEF report on metacognition!

So perhaps I'm a little more excited than most people about this (and it absolutely will be my bedtime reading tomorrow...) but if you want to check it out, then head here:

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There are many, many joys of being an independent teacher educator.

Spending a Thursday morning chasing up 6 overdue invoices (varying from 2 weeks to 6 weeks overdue) is certainly not one of them!

Why can't invoices just be paid on time?!

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It's getting closer and closer...

Developing a Metacogntive Curriculum!

Coming to every good bookshop (and Amazon) very very soon!

Having spent my Friday night googling and asking Chat GPT how to fix my washing machine, that actually, 'knowing stuff' is quite helpful and maybe being taught stuff is a rather novel, but important thing to do?

I'm fortunate to do a huge amount of training and facilitation work, but one thing I've been doing recently has been a whole new ballgame...

Leading an Alpha course!

It's been a brilliant last couple of months (with a few weeks still to come), but one of the best experiences ever!

I also snook in a one hour session for Maths teachers in the The Thinking Schools Academy Trust online after lunch as well, where we explored ways to improve modelling, questioning, discussion and feedback in the Maths classroom.

A cracking start to HT2. Now for my on-time Ryanair flight!!

very effective day of training!

Gutted to have missed Kate Jones and Daniel Muijs who were two of many amazing presenters on the day!

The end of a tiring, but superb day in Northern Ireland!

A 2.53am start (ouch), but an energising day at St Dominic's in Belfast, where I spoke for a couple of hours on oracy (leaning on Voice 21 UK of course) and metacognition. These really are 'two birds one stone' approaches, making it a...

A strong point - seeing secondary from a primary perspective would probably help ease transition and support curriculum sequencing as well.

I'm delighted to be running the BBO Maths Hub WG on L2 Qualifications again this year!
Jammed full of insight on curric, Maths anxiety, lesson design, language and more, with a brilliant opportunity to network, this fully funded opportunity is not to be missed!
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A 3am start this morning to head over to Northern Ireland for a day of oracy and metacognition PD, as well as exploring metacognitive approaches in Mathematics.

A full day, and plenty of coffee will be needed ☕

Last week I had the joy of working with dozens of headteachers and leaders, from numerous schools across a brilliant Trust, for a whole day of metacognitive training.

To kick off the holidays with this feedback is just amazing! Absolutely buzzing!! 😁😁

This afternoon I had the pleasure of delivering an online webinar, exploring metacognition in the Early Years, as well as when supporting EAL students.

Our recent house move has gone well, but my desk hasn't yet arrived, so a temporary solution was found (made?)!

An exciting night as I get to go through the final drafts for book number 4, exploring how we can embed metacognition in the curriculum!

A sneaky peak here on why knowing strategies isn't always the most important thing for a teacher ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Those are some significantly sized flats they're building...

One way to sort the housing crisis! 😅

Last week I had the opportunity to lead PD for Bishop Perowne college exploring how to make feedback more effective and improve teacher modelling.

I'm still delighted at the feedback I got through this morning!

> Valuable session
> Feedback overwhelmingly positive
> Practical, humorous, engaging

I don't think it is controversial to argue that we ought to spend more time thinking about tone and volume.

How we say things to students is just as, or arguably more important, in many situations, than what we say.

But after ITT, how much time is given to considering how we speak to students?