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Tips for Incorporating Meta-Cognitive Practices in Your Classroom

Discover the benefits and importance of metacognition in student learning. Learn about metacognitive strategies and how to incorporate practices like retrospectives, exam wrappers, and guided reflections in your classroom to promote self-awareness and critical thinking. Try out a reflective exercise and witness the impact of metacognitive practices firsthand!

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Tips for Incorporating Meta-Cognitive Practices in Your Classroom

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  1. Tips for Incorporating Meta-Cognitive Practices in Your Classroom Dr. Corey Ptak School of Life Sciences

  2. What is a metacognition? Thinking about thinking used to plan, monitor, and assess one's own learning. Includes a critical awareness of a) one’s thinking and learning b) oneself as a thinker and learner

  3. Knowledge of Cognition person knowledge- understanding one’s own cognitive strategies task knowledge – understanding of the cognitive strategies needed to perform the task presented conditional knowledge - ability to adapt strategies to new situations.

  4. Regulation of Cognition How an individual monitors and assesses their knowledge. This includes knowing how and when to use certain skills.

  5. Benefits of Metacognition students become aware of their strengths and weaknesses as learners, writers, readers, test-takers, group members Students recognize the limit of their knowledge or ability and then figure out how to expand that knowledge or extend the ability

  6. Importance of self reflection Metacognition often passive Part of “hidden curriculum” Reflection gives explicit time and space for metacognition

  7. Exercises that promote metacognition Retrospectives – Students begin by writing down what they think about a topic BEFORE they learn it. After the class students reread what they wrote and examine how their views have changed

  8. Exercises that promote metacognition Exam Wrappers – Post exam reflections asks students to examine how they approached the exam itself rather than the content

  9. Exercises that promote metacognition Guided Reflections – students are given a from that guides them through meaningful self reflection

  10. Practice version available, give it a try: http://goo.gl/forms/YYHeIs6Kdp

  11. Lets reflect

  12. Lets reflect How does your response at the end differ from your response at the beginning? What prior information did you draw on to inform your original ideas? Was anything you learned today in conflict with your original idea? What about the material caused you to change your mind?

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