Think!: Metacognition-powered Primary Teaching

Anoara Mughal is an experienced teacher and school leader, who is passionate about closing the disadvantage gap and promoting social justice.She serves on the Steering Group @HealthyToolkit, an organisation dedicated to encouraging and advancing teacher wellbeing. Anoara is also a Network Leader @WomenEdLondon, inspiring women into leadership. She has written online articles for The Chartered College of Teaching, the TES, The Headteacher, Teachwire and Learnus UK.


Anoara has spoken at a number of conferences including Primary Rocks and The Festival of Education where she presented and contributed to a panel on: What is a broad and balanced curriculum?


In 2017, she founded @NewToSLTChat but has since passed this on. Her article entitled: Metacognition: books, resources and teaching tips to help students know themselves as learners, was published online, by The Chartered College of Teaching, in January 2018.

In 2020, she founded Inspire Metacognition and hosts monthly chats on metacognition @IMetacognition. She is a founding fellow at The Chartered College of Teaching and passed the NPQH in 2020. You can follow her @anoara_a.