Metacognition

incorporate how you thought when first learning the task, (c) use “I” statements in your think-aloud, (d) model your expert thinking, and (e) label the processes used in your think-aloud as well as how you regulate your learning. This last element, metacognition, will aid in reducing misconceptions and erroneous strategies and guide students to be aware of their own…

In summary, my future goal of becoming a Reading Interventionist in my school district is contingent on my focus upon being a lifelong learner. Part of that process involves my completion of an Ed. D. degree in Reading in Literacy. In order to be successful and to reach my goal, the Capella Career Center will serve as a significant support to me. Teaching reading is a love of mine, and I will be able to focus on that love through my work. Topic Selection and Literature Review Reading…

What’s an engineer? That first thing that comes to mind when I’m ask that question is someone “smart,” “solve problems,” or “a lot of math.” The truth is that engineering is all of that and more. To describe what an engineer does can be quite complicated because the field involves many areas. You can have mechanical, chemical, biomedical, electrical, and many others. Even if engineering is such a broad field, all these areas have something in common, solve problems. Engineers are those that use…

school. I had just come from Paredes Middle School, whom also had a strict uniform policy. This upset me but I soon got over it when I began seventh grade. My learning skills became better and I got all A’s. I excelled and had many friends. My metacognition had also gotten better. I had known more about my learning strengths and abilities. For example, I loved English; I was quite good at it. I did not like math, I did not do so well with numbers. I tried to forget the past and look to a new…

symptoms that was shown throughout the book. In the very beginning of the book the easiest symptom to identify is cognitive. One of the more telling reasons that he has delusion was the conviction that he became a bug. In the article “Delusions and Metacognition in Patients with Schizophrenia” described the symptom as “Delusions are typically accompanied by a strong sense of conviction.…

A. Introduction For my personal learning experience I chose to learn how to juggle. This was chosen because it is something that always looked fun, and I figured why not give it a shot now! At first it was just attempting to juggle without any kind of prior knowledge on it, and without any sort of help or guidance. But, eventually I resorted to using YouTube videos to help learn how to juggle due to the lack of success. I spent just about thirty hours learning this. For the last eight weeks I…

al, 2009). The practice is powerful because it not only keeps students actively engaged as they read, but also helps them to develop the metacognition to understand why they don’t understand the things that confuse them. In particular, annotation can be a gateway to helping students build the necessary background knowledge and academic vocabulary in context that is critical for reading success…

There are two different types of motor skills, gross motor skills and fine motor skills. Gross motor skills are more likely to develop first because it includes activities that involve large muscles. An example of a gross motor skill is when my son first learned how to lift his head and eventually sit up straight on his own. The second type of motor skill is a fine motor skill. Fine motor skills are movements that require the ability to use smaller muscles to perform finely coordinated…

Joseph Henry is a 16 years 10 month old Caucasian male currently in 11th grade at St Peter’s Prep, NJ. He was referred by his mother, Ms. Rosemarie Henry with concerns in the area of attention, academic performance, and emotional well-being. A neuropsychological evaluation was conducted for the purpose of identifying and clarifying diagnoses and establishing treatment recommendations. Comprehensive neuropsychological assessment of Joseph Henry reveals a pattern of dysfunction associated with a…

Memory is the mental or physical power by which the mind retains and recalls information. Attention relates to the awareness of someone or something; being intrigued with someone or something, and/or having an interest in, or valuing it as important. When individuals focus they are conditioning their minds to constructively envision images/illustrations in a more vivid light. Finally, paying attention entails listening, watching; assess something or someone very carefully. The ways in which…