Examples Of Metacognitive Awareness

Metacognitive awareness is basically described as knowing how oneself thinks. According to Broderick/Blewitt they explain it as thinking about and awareness of our own mental process and their effect. The first example of metacognitive awareness is the professor puts on a movie for the college students, she asks the students to take notes in their notebooks. In which they can note what they liked and didn 't like about the movie and why. After the movie is over they will discuss their thought and develop individual one and as a class. An example in counseling for metacognitive awareness. The counselor will have the clients review some of the last session taping. After reviewing the tape, the counselor and the client discuss their thoughts …show more content…
A cognitive strategy is a mental process or procedure for accomplishing a particular cognitive goal. (Cognitive ,2015). The first example of cognitive strategies, I present to you is about Sarah. Sarah has the ideal that if she makes an A in English class, she can definitely pledge next spring. Sarah comes up with a plan that in order to do that she has to write good papers. So she goes to her teacher and ask for title of every paper for the semester. So that she can start brainstorming and preparing an outline. A second example that can be relevant for counseling, is having the client draw a picture to help release some of the feeling that the client going through. Have the client write down some of their goals and plans to make sure the client meets those …show more content…
According to Broderick/Blewitt it 's described as a memory strategy that requires finding or creating some kind of meaningful link between to-be- remembered items, such as creating a story that includes all the items. Ashley Barry remembers the numbers for her locker combination by giving the numbers meaning from professional volleyball players number. Because she has already memorized the professional volleyball players number she is able to remember her combo by thinking of the player’s number. This technique can be use in counseling especially when clients remember things that happen to them by giving the memories meaningful link between them The second example in order for Mr. Gray to help the students remember when the Civil War began/end in the year of 1861-865. Mr. Gray created a rhythm and tone. “In 1861 the Civil War had just begun an in 1865 the Civil War was not alive. I am pretty sure that rhythm will help students remember the Civil War whenever that subject comes