Metacognition

Introduction Early adolescence is a distinct period of human growth and development situated between childhood and adolescence, beginning with sexual maturation. This stage has only recently gained acceptance as a distinct developmental period. During this time, the developmental characteristics of young adolescents include physical, intellectual, psychological, moral, and social domains. These characteristics are interrelated and overlap. The movie “The Breakfast Club” vividly shows the five…

Annotated Bibliographies for Module 2 Driscoll, M. (2005). Psychology of Learning for Instruction (3rd ed.) (pp. 71-77). Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon. Driscoll introduces the human information processing system by stating that it is very similar to the way a computer processes and stores information. The reader is introduced to three stages of information processing: sensory memory (which functions to hold information in memory very briefly), working memory (the stage in which further processing…

My portfolio shows how my progress through the semester has improved since the beginning of the course early this fall. This assignment is a reflection of how I have bettered my skills in the five standards of the WPA outcomes. When I first started college, I only knew simple writing concepts, but by the end of the fall my techniques have transformed from basic to critical. Writing a better thesis statement and breaking everything down are just some ways in which I improved. The point is to…

For this observation paper I interviewed and observed a girl named Natalia*. She is my younger cousin and she is 13 years old. Natalia is currently in 7th grade and lives here in Omaha, Nebraska. I know a lot about of her because I am very close to her and her family as well, so the parents were very open about me interviewing them and Natalia. She lives with both her mother and father, one older brother (17 years old), a younger brother (10 years old) and a younger sister (2 years old).…

In the 2007 Douglas Downs and Wardle article, "Teaching about Writing, Righting Misconceptions, the focus is on the topic of how to operate a successful first year college writing class. Douglas Downs and Wardle discuss a change to the way in with first-year writing instruction had been taught. The change purposed was based on the results of a test course they developed. The goal of the course was to encourage more realistic conceptions of writing. Douglas Downs and Wardle focus on the…

Shakespeare tells of the internal conflict endured by the protagonist in his play Hamlet and brings the audience to question his sanity. Is Hamlet insane? Does he simply act insane? Or is he completely sane and acts rationally given his circumstances? The definition of “sanity” according to dictionary.com is: “having or showing reason, sound judgment, or good sense”. Based off of the soliloquies Hamlet gives, I believe that he is completely sane and acts as any person would if they were in a…

Education in America is a priority and raising the responsibility and efforts of the instructional setting is of high importance. The provision of appropriate educational needs for children with special disabilities has long been a standard issue in education (Huang, 2009). PL 42-124, the Education for All Individual Acts of 1975 was a foreseeable law that implied students with disabilities receive a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) suggested that students with disabilities need to be…

Course Reflection Metacognition Which 3 tools or strategies have you found especially useful in your wiring process this term? Explain using specific examples form your writing process for Essays 1 and 2 Then explain which aspect of your getting started writing process needs improvement and why. The three strategies that I have found useful in my writing process this term were, writing about prior knowledge on the topic, Freewrite, and having conversations with the professor, tutor and peers.…

books to escape from their reality. If children love their life the can read something that they can relate to. If child can relate and understand a story it can help with reading strategies, reading comprehension, recognizing story structures, metacognition, and answering questions. That is why diversity is important in children’s literature.…

For the visual project, my group and I had Piaget’s theory. My group members include Kelly Bruner, Rachel Bullock, Jenna Smith, and myself. My group met around twice a week for an hour to two hour sessions working on this project. Gathering information, choosing sound, making an imovie, and the voice overs as well. Everyone did a fair amount of work and we worked well as a team. Piaget’s theory of cognitivie development is about the nature and development of human intelligence.…