WorksheetsMetacognition
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
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
You have presented a new task. You want students to assess it. What would be the best question to ask?
What did we do last week?
What skills did you use in the task last week that you can re-use in this task?
How is this task similar to the task we did last week?
You want students to evaluate their strengths. What would be the best question to ask?
What are your strengths?
What are you good at?
When have you met a similar problem? What helped you solve it?
You want students to evaluate weaknesses. What would be the best question to ask?
What are your weaknesses?
What challenges might you face and how will you overcome them?
Which topic are you least confident with?
You want students to plan their next steps. What would be the best question to ask?
How many possible ways could you do this? Which one will work best for you... why?
What are you going to do?
Are you a visual or kinesthetic learner?
You are going through the answers to a test. What would be the best question to ask?
What questions did you get wrong?
What was the correct answer?
What steps did you take to get to that answer? Which one led you down the wrong path?
You want students to reflect on their learning. What would be the best question to ask?
What activity was most helpful to you today and why?
What did you learn today?
Have you met the learning intention?
What is an example of metacognition?
Someone figuring out what their learning style is
Someone remembers how to do their homework
Planning how to get the most out of learning
This stores pieces of information for you to use later such as tying your shoe.
working memory
long term memory
self- awareness
Knowing your strengths, weakness, beliefs, and motives is ________.
self-awareness
working memory
strengths
What is Metacognition?
creating mental images in your mind
thinking about your thinking
wondering as you read
thinking what the text might be about
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
