Metacognition

donate to and support the Syrian refugees and my stance was the fact that refugee help centers such as the Red Cross are overwhelmed and need help. As of the genre consisted of minimalistic text and a link leading to a donation webpage. For my metacognition I wrote about how I might offend people with my ideologies and how they might disagree with me. My Facebook post stated “Please donate to the Red Cross and help the Syrian refugees. Everyone deserves Sanctuary. LINK”. Unlike the Facebook…

Module 1 Reflection This learning theory activity reflects on how four main learning theories are interrelated and drive a variety of approaches used within special education and, more specifically, effective teaching practices. A Venn diagram was used to produce the interrelationship of the concepts of the Applied Behavioral Analysis, the Cognitive Strategy Instruction, the Schema Theory, and the Social Cultural Theory. This Venn diagram is broken down to four sets having thirteen places…

A list of strengths include positive attitude towards reading and writing, enjoys books that are funny or about Science, and can read with prosody. He recognizes that some texts are written to signal a change in tone. He uses positive metacognition skills by recognizing himself as a reader making progress and noting that his understanding of readings are different from his peers. He was able to distinguish rime/rhyme and oddity within three different words, blending onset with rime, blending…

Growth mindset, executive function, and empathy are three habits of mind that can help people achieve their goals. Growth Mindset mean a self-perception or self-theory that people hold about themselves. Believing that you are either intelligent or unintelligent is a simple example of Growth Mindset. The brain is actually quite like plastic, and can be reshaped over time, forming new neural pathways. The important part of Mindset is most of those who have achieved greatness, to use shakespeare’s…

Students’ having the ability to convey their thoughts successfully begins with the metacognition process. The video in Case #0041: Subject: School Counseling features a young student that has the ability to do well in school, but according to state tests she is failing. Her failing grades stem from the fact that the student frequently does not turn in assignments on time and she doesn’t complete her homework. The metacognition process is emphasized…

Scaffolding The Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) illustrates what the learner can perform with and without the teacher’s help. The teaching framework that aids the learner’s transition from conceptual application with help to application without help is scaffolding (Vygotsky, 1978). Likewise, Basu, Sengupta, and Biswas (2014) describe inquiry learning as an agent of scaffolding. As the level of subject difficulty rises, it becomes more important for teachers to identify the collective…

The areas of cognitive psychology as applied to educational psychology are: 1. * Metacognition: metacognition is thinking about thinking. This is a broad concept of all the types of thinking and knowledge that are applied to an individual thinking. This in education is called self-control. The students are several times the opportunity to assess…

What are human beings? What is our purpose in life? These are some of the questions that come to our minds as human beings. How do we begin to understand these thoughts? As self-conscience individuals, we turn to philosophy to help comprehend these questions. One may ask themselves what is philosophy? Three words to sum up philosophy, Love of Wisdom. Philosophy takes our curious minds to answer abstract questions. Philosophy can not only play a role in school, but it can also benefit lives of…

The article, Chopsticks and counting chips: do play and foundational skills need to compete for the teacher’s attention in an early childhood classroom?, by Elena Bodrova and Deborah J. Leong includes Elkonins four incredible principles for preparing the foundations for subsequent learning. Within the four principles includes plays affects on the child’s motivation. He says that through play children are capable of developing a multifaceted, ranked arrangement, of short and long-termed goals.…

different. Some will know more than others and this is ok. This is called the constructionist theory. Another important aspect of teaching literacy is understanding each individual child’s thought process or how their brain works. This is called metacognition. Combining these…