Theory and Practice of Metacognition for Teachers
For all teachers
For all higher education teachers who are passionate to learn or teach using the innovative approaches explained in this course.
In today’s knowledge-driven world, the development of metacognitive abilities is aligned with economic prosperity through developing innovative entrepreneurial spirit or through increased job prospects. Identifying the best instructional model for Metacognition is a key issue across the global educational landscape and we have resolved that in this pioneering generic course geared towards all the teachers.
This course is an interdisciplinary curriculum concept as against individual subjects taught in silos and thus provides a holistic thinking package.
Our course is packed with videos, research papers, model lesson plans, metacognitive inventory, and templates that enable teachers to implement metacognition in their teaching practice.
Important Information
Course Details, Eligibility and Duration
What is unique about this course?
Overall Educational Aims
- To equip teachers, with the understanding of the various metacognition strategies and habits of mind related to thinking.
- To enable teachers, to gain an ability to develop transferable intellectual, and interpersonal skills and an innovative mind-set in teaching the subjects that they teach. We provide you these through signature pedagogies that they can use to implement the principles explained in this course.
What are the learning outcomes and assignments?
There are three modules that expand on the details about ten metacognition skills, habits of mind, signature pedagogies and much more.
At the end of the course there is multiple choice questions that you will have to attend to pass this course.
Information on course modules
- Module 1
- Understanding Metacognition Framework
- 50 Hours
- Module 2
- Language Learning and Communication Skills
- 10 Hours
- Module 3
- Generic Metacognitive Awareness
- 15 Hours
In not more than 75 hours you can master the art of easing the process of metacognitive learning and teaching.
What is the course duration?
The course will need 75 hours of study time and 10 hours of preparation and revision for the MCQs. All this can be completed within 4 months of registration. Since the course is online, candidates can complete the course at their convenient time and schedule.
What is this course about?
This is a thorough Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course where it is expected that the teacher spends 50 hours of his/her time watching the videos after carefully reading all the background papers and supporting documentation that is provided to him/her through our course.
The course is designed to ensure that the candidates get all the basics of what the ten metacognition skills are and how effectively they can be taught using the suggested signature pedagogies. Having done these then there are suggested ways to track the metacognitive progress of their pupils.
There are three modules, each module will have some defined learning outcomes.
The overall MCQs at the end of the course checks how well the candidate has understood the concepts that are taught throughout this course.
It is suggested that you make this a hands-on course that demands implementing what you are learning in this course. Thus, preferably we hope that it is not just a theory-based course where one just reads the papers, watches the videos, and submits the assignments. Make it a hands-on course where you are expected to implement various strategies taught in the course.
It is thus a comprehensive course for a teacher who is serious about developing her/his metacognitive skills and wants to make a difference in the life of their pupils. Brighter, sharper, and enriched pupils mean a better overall outcome for them and an outstanding achievement/rating for the school.
What will you get at the end of the course?
Candidates will be assessed through a combined multiple-choice question at the end of the course.
Those who cannot secure that pass percentage will be offered one free re-sit i.e., s/he will be able to re-do the MCQ again and re-submit them. However, if s/he still fails to clear then s/he will get another chance by paying the prevailing rate of the course at that time.
Once passed the candidate will get a certificate that will be issued by the parent company of the course provider and that is ASTML (Academy of Science Technology and Management Limited) for CiriBloom.
Your re-sit attempts will not be reflected on your certificate.
Once passed, the candidate will join our global network of metacognitive course teacher alumni where they can continue to share and partake in the new developments that are happening on the education front. As our course alumni they will have access to our webinars and interactions with course developers and other eminent educationists that CiriBloom will continue to host on its platforms.
What is the eligibility criteria?
If you are planning to take this course then you should have:
- Graduation in any discipline OR
- Diploma in Education OR
- Higher Secondary Diploma (12th or A-Levels)
This course is for practicing teachers in higher education of any discipline although some aspects use examples of STEM more, but the basic principles can be extended to any other discipline as well.
If you are a language teacher or are planning to become one then you will be happy to know that :
This course to be specific is designed around the theory and practice of metacognition with our recommendation to implement more in practice in your teaching activities. Thus, some of the questions in the MCQ test will assess/gauge how well the teacher has understood the concepts and how well s/he can implement them in his/her classrooms.
How do I access the course and start using it once enrolled?
- You can pay for this course through an internationally activated credit or debit card using our registration link. You can also pay using your PayPal account.
- Once you have paid you will be a registered student of our computer science course and will have access to our training material.
- The course is planned in a systematic way i.e. upon registration you will be explained what this course is about, how it is designed, its layout, how to access it, how to submit the assignments etc.
- You will need access to the Internet to read the background papers in this course and watch the videos that will be available to you through this course.
- You can take this course on your phone or tablet as our course is fully responsive. It will work regardless of whether you are on a computer or a mobile device.
- You will need to complete the MCQs and pass them to achieve the certificate.