Loving this blog by Kirstin Mulholland (Maths Specialist, Education Endowment Foundation).
'A metacognitive strategy which can help with teaching maths problem-solving is the ‘Think Aloud’ approach. In a ‘Think Aloud’, educators narrate their thought processes as they undertake a particular task. This provides pupils with a model which demonstrates how an ‘expert’ learner approaches a problem, making these invisible processes visible and accessible to pupils.
By modelling the steps we use to determine which approach is needed for any given problem – including the questions we ask ourselves, and how we monitor and evaluate the strategies we use – we can show pupils how they can do this for themselves, scaffolding their independent learning.'
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