How to Create Autonomous Learners

<p>To achieve their full potential it is essential that children develop skills to become autonomous learners yet this skill does not come naturally to many learners. This book is a practical teaching and planning guide to the theory practice and the implementation of evidence-based approaches to develop essential metacognitive and self-study skills. </p><p><em>How to Create Autonomous Learners</em> explains how to get students parents and partners on board and how to implement these ideas across a class school or consortium. Areas covered include:</p><p>• How to get children and young people ready to learn.</p><p>• Why it is important to teach learning strategies. </p><p>• Encouraging children to become more active in the process of learning while also nurturing the development of creativity.</p><p>• How to harness learner motivation as metacognition and motivation are highly linked.</p><p>Easily applicable in any classroom this essential resource supports children’s development of important metacognitive self-regulatory and self-study skills and provides teachers and school leaders with evidence-based approaches for implementing these ideas with the support of parents students and partners.</p>