Metacognition

Assessment is vital to the education process. Assessment for Learning, also known as Formative assessment, refers to ongoing and interactive assessments of students’ progress and understanding throughout task performances. Assessment for learning allows for learning needs and teaching strategies to be identified, adjusted and diagnosed appropriately in relation to ‘next step '. It provides opportunities to optimise the student achievement levels and to attain a greater equity of student outcomes…

Reflection Journal: My Placement Observations/Four Significant Events: 1. When children are frightened by an unfamiliar face in their environment in age group 0-3 I keep my distance so that I do not make them feel unsafe, unsecure and unsupported As discussed by O’Connor et al (2014 p.592) the teacher–child relationship is an emotionally salient relationship, within which children may seek feelings of safety and security. It is characterized by closeness and conflict. Within close relationships…

Purpose of Videos: These videos are used to teach the students the effective ways to grasp the concepts required to understand the course material effectively. These videos have highlighted many aspects for the success and failure of students in their practical life. The students’ strategy to handle the problems and their work to complete the certain task, all these problems are discussed in this document. Some students finished their whole text books and cover all topics but in examinations,…

Dyslexia is an unrecognizable problem in many students, because people have a hard time recognizing the symptoms associated with dyslexia. Students, especially in middle school, are then classified as being lazy and difficult by their teachers. Learning is hard on any student who has a hard time reading and writing. People have agreed that if students of normal intelligence have not mastered reading and writing by the third grade, this is evidence that older students have dyslexia. The…

Freshman Composition has resulted in many sleepless nights and has been by far the most difficult class I have ever taken. The class is designed to get a student ready for college life and realize that everything is at a much faster pace with assignments being assigned daily. Throughout this portfolio it should be clear that in the beginning of the semester I had struggled in my writing and have progressively become better as a writer. Personally, the biggest accomplishment for me was to not…

723). A list such as this could have been written to propel forward a myriad of educational reform recommendations: formative classroom assessments, cooperative learning, project based learning, mathematics process standards, media literacy, metacognition, digital writing, personalized learning, and content area literacy standards are just a few. This short list of “hot topics” fill bookshelves, professional journals, and conference agendas. Each of the interchangeable terms for non-cognitive…

François-Marie Arouet, one of France’s greatest Enlightenment writers, better known by his pen name Voltaire, wrote the satirical novella Candide that targets the church, nobility, and the French government. It was first published in January or February of 1759 by numerous publishers including Gabriel Cramer, MArc Michel Rey, Jean Nourse, Lambert and others. This book was chosen for me to critique because Voltaire is one of the philosophers that we are currently learning about in class. This…

students to feel lost and confused about what they learn as most of the lesson is never properly recorded by their brains. As a peer instructor, I have found that in order to have effective learning there must be effective teaching, built around metacognition and student thought processes. Effective teaching begins with the learning climate; the emotional feeling a classroom exudes on a student’s learning experience (Sousa 1995). As a teacher, my job is to create a positive…

Furthermore, this class taught me greatly about myself as a thinker. Through the practice of metacognition, I learned how to tap into my creative thoughts and challenge my traditional approaches to solutions. Before this class, I was completely unaware of all the personal barriers that can hinder the soundness of my critical thoughts. Those personal…

Mice are mice. Dogs are dogs. Humans are humans. This should be simple to understand, yet, we live in a world with such a high amount of people believing that cruel, painful testing on innocent animals will have the same outcome for people. The truth is that 95% of the tests that pass through animals proceed to fail in the human body. And why would that be? The two of us are such different species with different body structures and brain functions; therefore, we aren’t correspondent at all. In…