Metacognition Overview

Competency

Understand and employ techniques for developing students’ skills of metacognition, self-regulation, and perseverance.

INDICATORS:

1. Use modeling, rehearsal, and feedback techniques that highlight the processes of thinking rather than focusing exclusively on the products of thinking.

Learning Outcomes

1. I can define and describe what metacognition is.

2. I can describe why metacognition is important.

3. I can describe how metacognition deepens and consolidates learning.

What I will DO in this module:

1. Explore the concept of metacognition.

2. Explore the use of metacognitive strategies to deepen and consolidate learning.

3. Implement metacognition in your practice and model strategies for students.