Thinking Matters
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Supporting schools in developing a ‘Thinking School’ pedagogical approach based on metacognitive practices and self-regulation. Forged at the University of Exeter’s Cognitive Education Unit, it is appropriate to any curriculum or setting.
Live & Hybrid Courses for 2026!
Are you ready to empower your students to ‘learn how to learn’? We are thrilled to announce our 2026 lineup of Metacognitive training for Primary and Secondary teachers looking to transform their classroom practice.
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Are you ready to empower your students to ‘learn how to learn’? We are thrilled to announce our 2026 lineup of Metacognitive training for Primary and Secondary teachers looking to transform their classroom practice.
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January 19, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Live & Hybrid Courses for 2026!
Are you ready to empower your students to ‘learn how to learn’? We are thrilled to announce our 2026 lineup of Metacognitive training for Primary and Secondary teachers looking to transform their classroom practice.
r1.ddlnk.net/75QJ-2XO70-32/
Are you ready to empower your students to ‘learn how to learn’? We are thrilled to announce our 2026 lineup of Metacognitive training for Primary and Secondary teachers looking to transform their classroom practice.
r1.ddlnk.net/75QJ-2XO70-32/
Check out ‘Diminishing Cues’ Retrieval Practice (DCRP) from Scientists in the Making – a sort of scaffolded retrieval technique that is worth looking at when you are concerned about overloading working memory capacity. www.thinkingmatters.com/news/diminsh... #thinkingschools #retrievalpractice
January 15, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Check out ‘Diminishing Cues’ Retrieval Practice (DCRP) from Scientists in the Making – a sort of scaffolded retrieval technique that is worth looking at when you are concerned about overloading working memory capacity. www.thinkingmatters.com/news/diminsh... #thinkingschools #retrievalpractice
We know retrieval practice works, but are we using it wrong? Carl Hendrick flags "lethal mutations" in how we apply it. It’s perfect for discrete facts, but research shows it struggles with: brand-new concepts & highly complex analysis. Stop the mutation thinkingmatters.com/news/retriev...
January 8, 2026 at 1:56 PM
We know retrieval practice works, but are we using it wrong? Carl Hendrick flags "lethal mutations" in how we apply it. It’s perfect for discrete facts, but research shows it struggles with: brand-new concepts & highly complex analysis. Stop the mutation thinkingmatters.com/news/retriev...
Huge Congratulations to @BartonCourtGS
who reaccreditated as an Advanced Thinking School with Exeter Uni! Report highlights:
- An inspirational centre of metacognitive educational excellence.
- World-class and leading in pedagogic excellence.
Learn more thinkingmatters.com/contact-us
who reaccreditated as an Advanced Thinking School with Exeter Uni! Report highlights:
- An inspirational centre of metacognitive educational excellence.
- World-class and leading in pedagogic excellence.
Learn more thinkingmatters.com/contact-us
December 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Huge Congratulations to @BartonCourtGS
who reaccreditated as an Advanced Thinking School with Exeter Uni! Report highlights:
- An inspirational centre of metacognitive educational excellence.
- World-class and leading in pedagogic excellence.
Learn more thinkingmatters.com/contact-us
who reaccreditated as an Advanced Thinking School with Exeter Uni! Report highlights:
- An inspirational centre of metacognitive educational excellence.
- World-class and leading in pedagogic excellence.
Learn more thinkingmatters.com/contact-us
FREE Metacognition Event! 🧠 Empower learners to 'think about their own thinking.'
Join Alisdair Wade & expert gurus after school, Thu Feb 12th, Bloomsbury, London. First come, first served!
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Join Alisdair Wade & expert gurus after school, Thu Feb 12th, Bloomsbury, London. First come, first served!
Register: educationinsightsevents.com/london-12-02... #Metacognition #Education #FreeEvent #TeacherTraining
South & East of England, London - Education Insights
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December 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
FREE Metacognition Event! 🧠 Empower learners to 'think about their own thinking.'
Join Alisdair Wade & expert gurus after school, Thu Feb 12th, Bloomsbury, London. First come, first served!
Register: educationinsightsevents.com/london-12-02... #Metacognition #Education #FreeEvent #TeacherTraining
Join Alisdair Wade & expert gurus after school, Thu Feb 12th, Bloomsbury, London. First come, first served!
Register: educationinsightsevents.com/london-12-02... #Metacognition #Education #FreeEvent #TeacherTraining
Did you know that we can 'bespoke' our training to connect with other school improvement priorities? Richmond Primary School - Ballygawley recently completed an introduction to using metacognitive visual tools with a focus Spelling development. www.thinkingmatters.com/professional...
Whole School Professional Development
Tailored professional development programmes for whole-school approaches to metacognition and self-regulated learning
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December 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Did you know that we can 'bespoke' our training to connect with other school improvement priorities? Richmond Primary School - Ballygawley recently completed an introduction to using metacognitive visual tools with a focus Spelling development. www.thinkingmatters.com/professional...
Learning initiatives not delivering the impact you'd hoped for? Partner with us to weave your cognitive, metacognitive and self regulation initiatives together with our 'thinking thread.' Develop learners who know how to learn and unify your pedagogy r1.ddlnk.net/75QJ-2UP4J-3...
December 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Learning initiatives not delivering the impact you'd hoped for? Partner with us to weave your cognitive, metacognitive and self regulation initiatives together with our 'thinking thread.' Develop learners who know how to learn and unify your pedagogy r1.ddlnk.net/75QJ-2UP4J-3...
A huge welcome to Ballycarry Primary School on the County Antrim coast! 👋 The staff gave us the warmest welcome for their introduction to the Thinking School approach. Thrilled to have them join the #ThinkingSchoolsNetwork! Looking forward to this journey. #metacognition #wholeschoolapproach
December 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
A huge welcome to Ballycarry Primary School on the County Antrim coast! 👋 The staff gave us the warmest welcome for their introduction to the Thinking School approach. Thrilled to have them join the #ThinkingSchoolsNetwork! Looking forward to this journey. #metacognition #wholeschoolapproach
"More Thinking Aloud, Allowed!" Great to catch up with the Drive Team at St John's CE Primary, Birmingham and focus on introducing a whole school framework, based on the metacognitive process, for their 'Think Alouds'. Contact thinkingmatters.com if you'd like to know more...
November 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
"More Thinking Aloud, Allowed!" Great to catch up with the Drive Team at St John's CE Primary, Birmingham and focus on introducing a whole school framework, based on the metacognitive process, for their 'Think Alouds'. Contact thinkingmatters.com if you'd like to know more...
What a super opportunity to experience 'whole school metacognition' in practice - thank you so much for the warm welcome and hospitality from MoiraPrimarySchool and Rowandale Integrated Primary, to the Principals, Frances Hughes and Colin Ford and all staff and students who hosted classroom visits.
November 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
What a super opportunity to experience 'whole school metacognition' in practice - thank you so much for the warm welcome and hospitality from MoiraPrimarySchool and Rowandale Integrated Primary, to the Principals, Frances Hughes and Colin Ford and all staff and students who hosted classroom visits.
What an interesting recent twilight session with the whole staff of Ballyclare Sec School, Co Antrim, who have started using Thinking Frames across the school - a great opportunity to share the practice and go deeper with the use of these powerful metacognitive tools. #metacognition #wholeschool
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
What an interesting recent twilight session with the whole staff of Ballyclare Sec School, Co Antrim, who have started using Thinking Frames across the school - a great opportunity to share the practice and go deeper with the use of these powerful metacognitive tools. #metacognition #wholeschool
Having worked with the brilliant Drive Team, John Curtin College of Arts, Perth, Australia, it is great to be able to continue meeting with them online. Lots of creative ideas implementing metacognitive tools and a super acronym developed refining the college's vision for their meta-LEARNERS
November 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Having worked with the brilliant Drive Team, John Curtin College of Arts, Perth, Australia, it is great to be able to continue meeting with them online. Lots of creative ideas implementing metacognitive tools and a super acronym developed refining the college's vision for their meta-LEARNERS
Take your teaching to the next level! Extend your pedagogy by attending the The Thinking Matters Cognitive Coach Course - Get the expert knowledge, skills, and practical tools to transform cognitive abilities. More details more info r1.ddlnk.net/75QJ-2TI2G-3... #cognitivecoach #metacognition
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November 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Take your teaching to the next level! Extend your pedagogy by attending the The Thinking Matters Cognitive Coach Course - Get the expert knowledge, skills, and practical tools to transform cognitive abilities. More details more info r1.ddlnk.net/75QJ-2TI2G-3... #cognitivecoach #metacognition
What a FABULOUS day at the #ThinkingMatters TransformEd Conf! Huge thanks to Ashgrove PS for hosting & their choir singing their OWN song on metacognition! Top insights from @ProfDanielMuijs & Lorna Gardiner (implementation with impact!)Inspiring practice shared by brilliant school teams.
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
What a FABULOUS day at the #ThinkingMatters TransformEd Conf! Huge thanks to Ashgrove PS for hosting & their choir singing their OWN song on metacognition! Top insights from @ProfDanielMuijs & Lorna Gardiner (implementation with impact!)Inspiring practice shared by brilliant school teams.
We hugely enjoyed our recent training session with St Philip Evans, Cardiff - refreshing their use of Thinking Frames and metacognitive practices to develop 'meta learners'. Key work helping students achieve the four core purposes of the #CurriculumForWales #Metacognition
November 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
We hugely enjoyed our recent training session with St Philip Evans, Cardiff - refreshing their use of Thinking Frames and metacognitive practices to develop 'meta learners'. Key work helping students achieve the four core purposes of the #CurriculumForWales #Metacognition
Amazing training session at St Paul's PS, Belfast! We explored deeper ways to use the #Metacognitive Visual Tools. The rainbow over the school summed it up: they are dedicated to bringing light & hope through powerful wholeschool #metacognition. A pleasure to partner with them!
November 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Amazing training session at St Paul's PS, Belfast! We explored deeper ways to use the #Metacognitive Visual Tools. The rainbow over the school summed it up: they are dedicated to bringing light & hope through powerful wholeschool #metacognition. A pleasure to partner with them!
Huge congratulations to Sir John Heron Primary School - they've officially achieved Thinking School Status from Exeter Uni! The report is glowing, noting the whole school approach has improved pupil attitudes, independence, and progress. Amazing effort by all #ThinkingSchool
November 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Huge congratulations to Sir John Heron Primary School - they've officially achieved Thinking School Status from Exeter Uni! The report is glowing, noting the whole school approach has improved pupil attitudes, independence, and progress. Amazing effort by all #ThinkingSchool
Welcome to teachers from the UK, Turkey, Bulgaria and Belgium to our global learning school community. Check out our online '#metacognition' courses in #criticalthinking; #cognitivecoaching; Oracy&Metacognition; #thinkingtools for SEND Practitioners and more! www.thinkingmatters.com/professional...
Professional Development For Teachers
Embed and master evidence-informed approaches for enhancing skills in critical thinking, metacognition and self-regulation.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Welcome to teachers from the UK, Turkey, Bulgaria and Belgium to our global learning school community. Check out our online '#metacognition' courses in #criticalthinking; #cognitivecoaching; Oracy&Metacognition; #thinkingtools for SEND Practitioners and more! www.thinkingmatters.com/professional...
We are delighted to be contributing to St Christopher's School Bahrain's TPL Programme focus on Self-regulated Learning. There was interesting reflection on the role of the teacher as cognitive coach with thoughtful and reflective staff. #ThinkingSchool #SelfRegulatedLearning #thinkingmatters
October 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
We are delighted to be contributing to St Christopher's School Bahrain's TPL Programme focus on Self-regulated Learning. There was interesting reflection on the role of the teacher as cognitive coach with thoughtful and reflective staff. #ThinkingSchool #SelfRegulatedLearning #thinkingmatters
We always value opportunities to meet with student teachers and ECTs so were delighted to be invited back to facilitate a 'Mastering Metacognition' workshop with the final year B.Ed primary students at Liverpool Hope University - the future of the teaching profession is certainly bright!
October 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
We always value opportunities to meet with student teachers and ECTs so were delighted to be invited back to facilitate a 'Mastering Metacognition' workshop with the final year B.Ed primary students at Liverpool Hope University - the future of the teaching profession is certainly bright!
Enormous congratulations to Lawrence View Primary for their recent accreditation as a Thinking School by the University of Exeter, recognising all their hard work and commitment to embed a whole school approach to metacognition. Well done to all staff, pupils and all involved! #thinkingschools
October 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Enormous congratulations to Lawrence View Primary for their recent accreditation as a Thinking School by the University of Exeter, recognising all their hard work and commitment to embed a whole school approach to metacognition. Well done to all staff, pupils and all involved! #thinkingschools
How exciting to meet with one of our thinking teams for some interesting and reflective discussion in their beautiful new school building! Congratulations Rowandale IPS, Moira and best wishes with continuing to embed your thinking school approach. #thinkingschools #ThinkingMatters #metacognition
October 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
How exciting to meet with one of our thinking teams for some interesting and reflective discussion in their beautiful new school building! Congratulations Rowandale IPS, Moira and best wishes with continuing to embed your thinking school approach. #thinkingschools #ThinkingMatters #metacognition
www.thinkingmatters.com/.../enabling.... Enabling SEND Learners to Thrive ...How can metacognitive visual tools help students with learning challenges? Find out as Lorna Gardiner sits down for a discussion with Judit Coulehan, Director of Learning Development and SENCO at Shiplake College
Vlog: Enabling SEND learners to thrive - Thinking Matters
Director of Learning Development and SENCO at Shiplake College discusses how the Shiplake community utilises metacognitive visual tools with the college’s SEND learners.
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October 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
www.thinkingmatters.com/.../enabling.... Enabling SEND Learners to Thrive ...How can metacognitive visual tools help students with learning challenges? Find out as Lorna Gardiner sits down for a discussion with Judit Coulehan, Director of Learning Development and SENCO at Shiplake College
Congratulations to Our Lady Star of the Sea School being awarded Thinking School Status - reflecting their commitment to excellent teaching and learning. The report highlights the impressive growth during Thinking Schools implementation period and states "learning is mediated wonderfully" ...
October 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Congratulations to Our Lady Star of the Sea School being awarded Thinking School Status - reflecting their commitment to excellent teaching and learning. The report highlights the impressive growth during Thinking Schools implementation period and states "learning is mediated wonderfully" ...
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October 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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