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The study aimed to identify how much are the skills of the metacognitive thinking used by the Islamic Education teachers. The two researchers followed the analytical descriptive - uantitative method. To achieve this goal a valid and stable test was prepared and verified. 30 classes for 11 secondary school teachers (secondary 1st and 2nd) of the Middle Governorate were observed in regarding to the degree of teachers' use of the metacognitive thinking skills in teaching the unit of biography and genealogy. The results showed that the total degree of use is (0.82) and that the skill of planning obtained the first rank with a relative weight (0.89), while the control skill was in the second rank with a relative weight (0.76) and the evaluation skill was in the last rank with a relative weight (0.70). However, it appears that there are no significant differences in using the metacognitive thinking skills between the two grades (secondary 1st and 2nd). The two researchers recommended the need to activate its indicators in teaching all the units of the Islamic Education books and the other subjects. (Published Abstract)