Metacognition

Metacognition

·       Thinking about your own thinking

·       Metacognition is the process of self-awareness of learning  

·       Knowledge about one’s own cognitive system:

Thinking about one’s own thinking

Essential skill for learning to learn

Metacognition also includes thoughts about:

1.     What we know or don’t know

2.     Regulating how we learn things

Helping students to use their metacognitive abilities:

-          Have students monitor their own learning and thinking

-          Have students learn study strategies

-          Have students make predictions about information to be presented Next based on what they have read

-          Have students relate ideas to existing knowledge structures

-          Have students develop questions: ask questions of themselves, about what’s going on around them
-        Help students to know when to ask for help.

Metacognition in the classroom

Metacognition involves 3 processes

1.     Awareness

2.     Planning

3.     Monitoring/reflection

These processes can enable students to better control their thinking can became more efficient and flexible learners.

Examples of metacognition

1. What is metacognition?  Explain 4 things you can do to improve children’s metacognitive abilities.

Metacognition is thinking about your own thinking.

To improve children’s metacognitive abilities teachers can help

-          Have students to monitor their own learning and thinking

-          Have students to learn study strategies

-          Have students to develop questions: ask questions of themselves, about what’s going on around them

-          Help students to know when to ask for help