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The best learners think about their own thinking. They plan, monitor, and check their work, and they don’t give up when it gets hard. Metacognition is one of the highest-impact, lowest-cost ways to improve outcomes, according to the EEF. But it’s often misunderstood. This training shows your staff how to teach metacognition and self-regulated learning in a way that’s practical and precise.
Below, we explain what our metacognition training involves, and how it helps pupils become confident, independent learners.
What Is Metacognition & Self-Regulated Learning Training?
It’s practical, evidence-informed training that helps teachers develop pupils’ metacognitive and self-regulation skills. We cover what metacognition really is, how to model it, and how to build planning, monitoring, and evaluating into everyday teaching across subjects.
We ground it in the EEF’s guidance and the wider research, and translate it into strategies that work in real classrooms rather than vague talk about ‘independent learning’.
Who Is This Training For?
It’s designed for all education settings: maintained schools, academies, and multi-academy trusts, Alternative Provisions, and SEND Units/Hubs. It works for whole-school INSET, subject teams, or leaders building a metacognition strategy. Trusts often run it across schools for a consistent approach.
Many schools ask for it when pupils rely too heavily on the teacher, lack resilience, or struggle to work independently.
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What Does the Training Cover?
We shape the content around your priorities. You can book a whole-school INSET, a group session, or focused one-to-one support. Our most common areas include:
- What metacognition and self-regulation really mean
- The EEF’s seven-step model for teaching it
- Modelling your own thinking out loud
- Teaching pupils to plan, monitor, and evaluate
- Building metacognitive talk into lessons
- Subject-specific metacognitive strategies
- Developing resilience and independence
- Embedding a whole-school approach
How This Training Helps Your School, Academy, Trust, or Alternative Provision
1
Build independent learners
Pupils learn to manage their own learning. They rely less on the teacher and take more ownership.
2
Raise outcomes at low cost
Metacognition is one of the highest-impact, lowest-cost strategies there is. It lifts results without new resources.
3
Give staff a clear model
We use the EEF’s proven seven-step approach. Staff leave with a clear structure, not a vague idea.
4
Develop resilience
Pupils learn to keep going when work is hard. They build the habits that help them succeed long term.
5
Support pupils with SEND
Explicit strategies for planning and checking help learners who find self-management difficult.
6
Create a consistent approach
Every teacher uses the same language and strategies. Pupils experience metacognition across the whole school.
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Strengthen your teaching and learning offer
You can show a research-informed approach to independence and self-regulation, with evidence of impact.
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How the Training Works
- 1We talk with you to understand your context, your staff, and what you want to change.
- 2We tailor the content to your setting, your phase, and your improvement priorities.
- 3We model metacognitive teaching live, so staff see how to make their own thinking visible to pupils.
- 4We deliver the training in person or online, in a way that fits your calendar.
- 5We give you practical resources and tools your staff can use straight away.
- 6We follow up to help you embed the learning, so it sticks and changes classroom practice.
What Your Staff Get
Every participant comes away with more than notes. They get:
- Clear, practical strategies they can use in the next lesson
- A shared language and consistent approach across the team
- Ready-to-use resources, tools, and templates
- The confidence to put the training into practice
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Key Features of Our Training
Grounded in EEF guidance
We build on the strongest evidence and the proven seven-step model.
Tailored to your subjects
We shape the strategies around your phase, subjects, and priorities.
Whole-school, group, or individual
Book an INSET, a subject session, or coaching. We adapt to you.
Why Choose Jarvis Education?
We work only with education settings. We know how to make metacognition concrete and practical, not woolly. Our training helps pupils become confident, independent learners, with every decision staying focused on children.
Want to know how this training could work for your school? Just get in touch.
Next Steps & How to Get Started
- Speak to one of our experts. We’ll explain how we work, answer your questions, and help you shape the right training for your staff.
- We agree dates and delivery that suit your calendar, in person or online, and confirm everything in writing.
- Contact us today to discuss how we can support your school, academy, trust, and alternative provision.
- We’re ready to help and support you.
Who We Work With
We support settings of every type across England and internationally.
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