Metacognition: The Ability to Think About Your Thoughts With the Aim of Improving Learning In my reading of articles about brain based education, I kept coming across articles about metacognition. I just returned from the AVID Summer Institute and teaching metacognition was one of the main focuses of my strand, “The Art of Inquiry”.
Teaching students to “drive their brains” with the goal of developing the ability to think about their thoughts with the aim of improving learning will have benefits for them both in and out of the classroom. Metacognition can be learned when it’s explicitly taught and practiced across content areas and social contexts. Teachers can model how they use higher order thinking strategies aloud as well as recognizing when they have made a mistake and use it as a teachable moment to show that everyone makes mistakes and that mistakes are best seen as opportunities to learn and improve. Students who are excited about steering toward learning success are more likely to become independent thinkers who are more aware of their independent progress along their learning path. This leads to students being more conscious and reflective about their learning.
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