Applying the Expert Learning Culture at Queen Anne’s School

All experts constantly reflect upon what they are doing and how they are progressing (Stobart, 2014). If our students are to be expert learners, they must be able to reflect upon and monitor their learning . For this, they need opportunities to assess their own strengths and weaknesses and set themselves challenging, but attainable goals. The more opportunities that students have to reflect on their learning, the more they will develop self-knowledge of their strengths and weaknesses so they can adapt their cognition, improve their motivation and facilitate their learning. These ideas are underpinned by the concept of metacognition, in that students become more knowledgeable of and responsible for their own thinking. Students who lack appreciation of their own strengths and weaknesses will be less likely to adapt to different situations and regulate their own learning in them. Accordingly, a lack of self-knowledge can be a constraint on learning (Pintrich, 2002). To promote the lea