Leading in Learning: developing thinking skills at Key Stage 3 – exemplification materials

The Leading in Learning programme has been developed as part of the National Strategies Secondary support for whole-school improvement. It is a systematic, research-based programme, focused on improving pupils' thinking skills in curriculum subjects.

Leading in Learning takes a cross-curricular approach and is deliberately structured so that teachers and pupils look beyond subject confines to thinking and learning more generally. There is a focus on specific thinking abilities and metacognition to encourage systematic development of thinking skills and transfer of learning across subjects and to other aspects of pupils' lives.

The exemplification materials here are designed to accompany the pack Leading in learning: Developing thinking skills at Key Stage 3, and provide subject exemplification to assist teachers in gathering ideas about how to apply the teaching strategies to their own subject.