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‹The latest episode of The SecEd Podcast offers practical tips and ideas about how teachers can make use of metacognition strategies to support students™ learning, helping them to become effective independent learners

In this episode of the SecEd podcast, Matt Bromley interviews Jackie Beere and Kevin Piper about metacognition and self-regulation.

The panel define their terms and discuss ways to help students develop metacognitive skills in order to support their wellbeing, and their learning and progress. They debate whether metacognition can be taught as a transferable skill or if it is domain-specific, and discuss the importance of a teacher modelling different learning strategies. The podcast offers a number of practical ideas and tips for teaching staff.



Featuring Jackie Beere, an educational trainer, former headteacher and author of many books for teachers, and Kevin Piper who has taught for 35 years in schools, colleges and universities and is now director of education at Creative Education.

Listen to the episode here.

Find out more about Jackie's book The Complete Learner's Toolkit here.

In Making Kids Cleverer, David Didau reignites the nature vs. nurture debate around intelligence and offers research-informed guidance on how teachers can help their students acquire a robust store of knowledge and skills that is both powerful and useful.

Led by teacher, speaker and writer Peter Radford, this half-day webinar has been specifically designed to look seriously at addressing the staff wellbeing crisis developing in our schools and exacerbated by the current pandemic. It will explore how leaders can sustainably enable staff to thrive rather than just survive. Based around the content of his newly released book Love Teaching Keep Teaching, Peter will equip delegates to transform the culture of school, providing insights and strategies to place wellbeing at the heart of school life. This course is suitable for Senior and Middle Leaders, HR Leads or those aspiring to leadership who want to be part of shaping a new and exciting future for the teaching profession.

All delegates will receive a complimentary copy of Peter™s book: Love Teaching Keep Teaching: An essential guide to transforming wellbeing at all levels of school.

Key Learning objectives include:

• The truth about employee engagement & motivation


• How to embed wellbeing into your school culture


• Creating a dynamic school culture that staff want to be part of


• Mobilising your middle leaders to transform your staff team


• Workable strategies and tips for building a happier working environment


• Investigating common mistakes and how to avoid them


• Exploring the number one thing that your staff need most!

Course fees are £125 + vat per person. Discounts available for 2+ colleagues.

Find out more and book your place here.

As featured on CNN, Forbes and Inc “ BookAuthority identifies and rates the best books in the world, based on recommendations by thought leaders and experts. Read the full list here.

Find out more about When The Adults Change, Everything Changes and order your copy here.

The sequel to this bestselling book is due March 2021. Find out more about After The Adults Change here.

Chess Improvement is the sort of book that every reader can take their own nuggets of wisdom from. It is especially useful for those who have a growth rather than a fixed mindset “ that is to say, those people who use the ˜now™ as a stepping stone towards where they want to be.

The book features a huge amount of thought-provoking, well-researched information and advice, and I fail to see how the aspiring chess player could not improve their game and their mindset should they take
away just some of the ideas and suggestions contained within it.



The authors have given us the tools for the job, so it is up to us to take up the challenge. Our biggest mistake as chess players might be to not own a copy of this especially important work.

Carl Portman, author of Chess Behind Bars

Discover Chess Improvement here.

This is an original and very welcome book. Mark Enser has fully grasped the nature of powerful knowledge and the three futures approach to thinking about the geography curriculum. These are not analytical concepts that result in recipes for teachers to follow; they are heuristics, developed to enable thought and action.

Enser takes us through his own thoughts and actions in a book that is overtly open, inviting and engaging. Throughout the book, he is thinking out loud about what constitutes high-quality geography in school, and his answer is based on unavoidable and undeniably challenging (and professionally rewarding) curriculum leadership. In short, he sees the vital role of teacher agency in high-quality œcurriculum making guided by a clearly articulated vision of the subject™s role in education. In adopting the œgarden of peace as a classroom metaphor, the book is a radical antidote to what David Mitchell calls the hyper-socialised conditions in which curriculum-makers have to work.

In producing Powerful Geography, Mark manages to convey a sense of geography™s significance in the school curriculum “ yet he also acknowledges that it is not the last word, and that debates concerning geography education will continue.

David Lambert, Honorary Professor of Geography Education, UCL Institute of Education


Find out more and pre-order your copy here.