Metacognition Overview

Module 1: 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.

Module 2: Strategies of Metacognition

Competency

iNACOL Competency 1A: Shift from teacher-led instruction to student-centered learning for the purposes of meeting individual needs and fostering engagement and motivation.

Learning Outcomes

  1. I can describe strategies that elicit metacognition.

  2. I can use metacognitive strategies to deepen and consolidate learning.

  3. I can implement metacognition in my practice and model strategies for students.

What I will DO in this module:

  1. Explore one or more metacognition strategies and implementation tools.

  2. Plan for the use of the selected strategy of eliciting the act of metacognition.

  3. Reflect on the implementation of the selected strategy.

Module 3: Metacognition Strategies in Connection Content Areas

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