Hiba Academy Shanghai

Before we began with Thinking Moves

Before we took on Thinking Moves, our approach to metacognition. Very limited and inconsistent. Most staff found metacognition is a giant topic to touch!

The impact

Thinking Moves help activate students' awareness of hard thinking. Students are passionate of doing the actions and often spontaneously use the words from Thinking Moves to respond to the learning.

Thinking Moves is simple and comprehensive. Easy for teachers and students to start. It a good tool to help teachers plan their lesson with different levels of thinking challenges and help teacher evaluate whether they embed enough opportunities to activate students' thinking in their lessons.

Thinking Moves are helpful to encourage students to talk more in lessons. Students now think about their thinking by doing gestures. Thinking moves make thinking visible.

The students enjoyed using the 26 words. The peer-to-peer talk is more focused around the topic. Pupils engagement is higher than before. Often, students will start their opinion with "I negate.....", "I want to give an example...."

Daisy Xie
Deputy Head of Primary at Hiba Academy Shanghai