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Teacher tip: use metacognitive strategies to empower your students

Use this guide to implement metacognitive strategies to help students become self-regulating learners and develop a strong sense of agency in their learning.

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Year level(s)	Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource
Format	Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Metacognitive strategies
Curriculum alignment
Strand and focus	Space
Topics	Shapes and objects
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M2SP01 Recognise, compare and classify shapes, referencing the number of sides and using spatial terms such as "opposite", "parallel", "curved" and "straight" AC9M3SP01 Make, compare and classify objects, identifying key features and explaining why these features make them suited to their uses AC9M4SP01 Represent and approximate composite shapes and objects in the environment, using combinations of familiar shapes and objects AC9M5SP01 Connect objects to their nets and build objects from their nets using spatial and geometric reasoning
Numeracy progression	Understanding geometric properties (P3, P4)
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