Metacognition

Arnie Grape, from What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, is an eighteen year old boy who is developmentally delayed. According to the Center of Disease Control, a developmental disability is caused by impaired mental, physical, and/or learning capacity (Boyle et al. 2011). In a twelve year study, it was found that males had a higher prevalence of disabilities compared to females; low income was also associated with higher prevalence of disability (Boyle et al. 2011). Developmental disabilities impact…

Ericka Farrell Keiser University Dr. Diana Martin Psychological Basis of Education (EDU520) 6/14/2015 Self-regulated learning (SRL) implies the notion of metacognition (self-critical assessment of one's personal inner need to be educated), strategic action (arranging, observing, and assessing individual advancement against a standard), and inspiration to learn. "Self-regulated" portrays a procedure of…

counselor represents the affective dimension to an otherwise cognitive-oriented school day. When considered, the average school day is filled with primarily academic pursuits. There are differentiated instructional practices, science projects, metacognitions with texts presented in class, assessments, lectures, homework assignments, and more assessments. Instructional Leader – Affective Education Children go to school to learn and master various levels of mathematics, science, social…

Introduction “School transitions are a pressing issue to practitioners; however, surprisingly little research exists about the extent to which school transitions pose a challenge and cause academic and social performance declines” (Malaspina, D., & Rimm-Kaufman, S. E. ,2008). The researcher is looking to understand student’s perception of motivation, elementary and middle school differences, teacher-student relationships, and self-efficacy during the transition from elementary to middle school…

spirited hippies at Woodstock to the psychedelic adventures of Hunter S. Thompson, LSD is the guide to what lies in-between the lines of reality. LSD is a tool that spurred the advances of technology; it has given new meaning to the way we utilize metacognition. To illustrate these two points of technology and the mind I will start with father of LSD. But first let’s elaborate on the word drug. This word won’t be used because it…

We all know that cognition, simply put, is a combination of mental abilities and methods relating to subjects such as learning and memory. Have you ever caught yourself wondering how you remember something? Did you have to use repetition? Encoding? Cognition uses our existing knowledge to form new knowledge and can be used in terms of personal attitudes as well as psychological functions. Everybody is Stupid Except You primarily focuses on memory and learning, but at the same time, points out…

student. If the student does well on the assessment then the teacher can move on to the next step in the process, if the student is struggling, the teacher can adjust and reteach the lesson, or modify it if necessary. The assessment measures the metacognition knowledge that is displayed in the student’s ability and achievement, therefore, allowing the teacher to identify the knowledge gained by the student (Handel, Lockl, Heydrich, Weinert, & Artlet, 2014). Students with Learning…

In doing my observation for this classroom analysis paper, I decided to observe a Special Education Day Class (SDC) at Cordova High School in Rancho Cordova. The instructor is Mrs. Melody Smith-Williams, a 10th - 11th grade Special Education English teacher. The observation took place on Friday, May 13, 2016 from 9:00am -12:00pm. On the day of my observation there were 27 students (8 English learners, 6 African- Americans, and 13 white). There were also 2 Para-educator, besides Mrs.…

“Edwards says for weeks she noticed her son would keep his elbows tucked close to his sides when at home.” That’s a discovery Colene Edwards, a mother from Brisdale Public School in Brampton, made during parent-teacher night. While the teacher did communicate with her concerning the large size of her son, the teacher never confessed to using a segregated tactic to teach her son, Anelka, about personal space. To distinguish him from the classroom, a pie-shape with masking tape separated his…

While absorbing the cinematic film, Grizzly Man (created by Herzog), and the intriguing texts, Too Much of A Good Thing (Tracy Frisch interviewing Daniel E. Lieberman) & The Vow of the Weasel (written by Dillard), a more concise understanding betwixt modern-day culture, humans, and animals periodically blossom through each story, adding a new piece to the complex puzzle incorporated within the lexicon of the “humanimal”. Consequently, these forms of media all share a common syntactic thread of…