Metacognition

answers. My professor uses a variety of teaching methods because each student has a Personal Learning Plan and different learning preferences. This is seen in our “What’s MY Style?” mini assignment from week one, where we learned about our personal metacognitions. A few teaching methods I’ve seen in class include videos, visual and creative projects, and group activities. We also conversed about the importance of the Good Teaching Triangle and cultural competency, “the will and skill to create…

training videos to show each day and only chose ones that I thought we would use. Limiting the bells and whistles allowed for me to emphasis what I wanted the content to be. Here is an example of what one group of my students did (Habits of Mind – Metacognition), the Rubric I used (Rubric – Kathy Schrock) and I created a Cheat Sheet for students where I copied a bunch of links so they could find resources quicker, and wouldn’t get lost searching. What I wanted my kids to do is to make an…

Describe the information-processing theory of cognitive development. According to K. Berger (2008), the information-processing theory is a “vew of cognition as comparable to the functioning of a computer and as best understood by analyzing each aspect o the functioning” (pg 310). The information-process are comprised of three important components, sensory memory, working memory, and long-term memory. The sensory memory is the component that allows stimulas information to be stored for a split…

My most recent mentor was my twelfth grade English teacher. In the beginning of the year she introduced us to the eight habits of mind. This included: curiosity, openness, engagement, creativity, persistence, responsibility, flexibility, and metacognition. This eight habits of mind tie together the literacy staircase as a whole. Let’s think…

utilize various strategies to extrapolate information from text. One strategy that will increase student learning and influence reading comprehension is to teach metacognitive skills. Bonds and Bonds (1992) recognized “the relationship between metacognition and reading because good readers use words for information and read more strategically while poorer readers depend on contextual sources for meaning” (as cited in Hopper, Jayroe, & Franz, 2008, p. 7). To ensure that students become lifelong…

4. The strategies of listening skill listening strategies are very helpful to the students, but without grammar, vocabulary and the knowledge of phonology, these strategies stay not enough, teachers should teach students these strategies and increase the knowledge of grammar and etc. (Goh, 2000) . Vandergrift (1999) reported that strategies are conscious means where learners can manage and assess their own comprehension and responses, for that reason, strategy development is very significant…

The Principles and Standards states that “Solving problems is not only a goal of learning mathematics but also a major means of doing so… Problem solving is an integral part of all mathematics learning, and so it should not be an isolated part of the mathematics program” (page 32, ¶3). There are three ways that problem solving might be incorporated into mathematics instruction. They include teaching for problem solving, teaching about problem solving, and teaching through problem solving.…

Palestinians believe that the Jews do not have the right. Although some Jews are trying to see the Palestinian side, many are not. This is not to say the Palestinians do not need to see the Jewish side. (Chernin). Basically, if people would practice metacognition more often, this conflict would presumably not be happening. The Holy Land or the homeland of the Jew goes back many, many years, beginning with the oppression in Egypt. After going on their journey out of Egypt and making it to…

behaviour in response to drink with people who want to drink heavily and with people who want to drink lightly. Ailsa Clark, Cathy Tran, Alexander Weiss, Gabriele Caselli, Ana V. Nikčević, Marcantonio M. Spada (2012) 'Personality and alcohol metacognitions as predictors of weekly levels of alcohol use in binge drinking university students ', Addictive Behaviors, 37, pp.…

When teachers use assessment with the students they develop the ability to assess themselves and become aware of their metacognition and habits of mind. The teachers role in Assessment as Learning is to model and guide students to become independent learning, develop their own thinking and internal feedback. It is important to create a classroom environment cultivates confidence…