Welcome to MYP Decoded! I’m Vaughan Kitson, the MYP Coordinator and Deputy Head at Raha International School in Abu Dhabi.

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In Episode 2, which is the first half of a two-parter, I’m joined by Aoife Abushaqra. Aoife is a leading MYP and DP English teacher and our school’s Theory of Knowledge (ToK) Coordinator. Together we’ll be aiming to articulate in plain English what metacognition is, why it is essential, and with any luck it should become apparent that the Middle Years Programme is in fact extremely well designed to embrace the concept of metacognition and develop self-regulated learners.

The two articles referred to during this episode are:

1. Making the Abstract Explicit: The Role Of Metacognition In Teaching And Learning (August 2020)

Policy Paper

https://ibo.org/globalassets/publications/ib-research/policy/metacognition-policy-paper.pdf

and

2. Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning – Guidance Report (2018)

Education Endowment Foundation (EEF)

https://dera.ioe.ac.uk/31617/1/EEF_Metacognition_and_self-regulated_learning.pdf

For a short but useful introduction to metacognition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZrUWvfU6VU&t=62s

The release of this episode coincides with the recent passing of Edward De Bono, the pioneer of ‘thinking about thinking’. www.debono.com