Inclusive Education

This case study was created by Teach For Uganda alumnus Solomon Kamukama for the Inclusive Education fellowship. He explored how metacognitive strategies can be used to improve classroom culture, comprehension, and socio-emotional learning.

Heather Branigan and Margarita Kanevski discuss the relationship between metacognition and executive functions. They share five strategies with a focus on being explicit, modeling, and consolidating learning regardless the strategy.

Youki Terada shares metacognitive strategies to use in class, such as exit tickets and pop quizzes. She also shares the importance of asking questions and how these are especially useful when preparing for tests and as review after tests.

Chrissie Butler provides a clear walkthrough of the Universal Design for Learning guidelines. She explains that they provide a shared language and are adaptable, making them useful for multiple lesson planning purposes.

A school embraces Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and learns the whole school adjustment, teacher practices, and impact that the UDL framework has had on the school.

This chapter from the book Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments explores how student-centered learning environments use self-regulatory processes, highlighting the need for tools to support these processes and enhance metacognition.