Metacognition Review

What is metacognition?

• Thinking about how to learn

• Thinking about what to learn

• Thinking about lessons

Students with good metacognitive abilities can _________

• Reflect on their learning

• Identify their own strengths and weaknesses

• Both of the above

Why do we need to teach students about Metacognition?

• So they can know when to give up

• So they can be better people

• So they can be more effective learners

• We don't

Which metacognitive habit is a student using when they know different methods to learn and try different ones when needed?

• Focus

• Goals

• Environment

• Strategies

What is Metacognition?

• creating mental images in your mind

• thinking about your thinking

• wondering as you read

• thinking what the text might be about

What is metacognition the ability to do?

• Ability to review plans in the face of obstacles, setbacks, new information or mistakes, adaptability to changing conditions

• Capacity to follow through to the completion of a goal and not be put off by other demands on competing interests

• Ability to manage emotions in order to help ourselves regulate and guide our behavior, perform tasks, reach goals

• Ability to stand back and take a bird's eye view of oneself in a situation. Ability to observe how you problem solve. Includes self-monitoring and evaluation

Metacognition is a combination of what two things?

• Understanding your own behavior as your current situation adjusts to you

• Understanding your own behavior as you adjust to your current situation

• Behaving without thought as your current situation adjusts to you

• Behaving without thought as you adjust to your current situation

While you are completing the task, what should you ask yourself?

• How am I doing?

• What is everyone else doing?

• Should I work faster?

• Is this perfect?

What is metacognition?

• Thinking about how to learn

• Thinking about what to learn

• Thinking about lessons

• Thinking about teaching

Students with good metacognitive abilities can _________

• Reflect on their learning

• Identify their own strengths and weaknesses

• Both of the above

• None of the above