Metacognition


  This week in the class with my coop teacher I noticed the use of metacognition a few times. The teacher went passed out homework assignments and then instead of just grading them and handing them back, she made notes on the side and handed it back and allowed the student to go back and see what they needed to improve on and hand the homework back in with the new corrected work. This allowed students to go back and look at the problems they needed to redo, then ask how they could fix those problems, and evaluate how they did and what they can change for a test or the next time they work on their homework. This is the metacognitive skills being put to use.
      I also remember when I was in high school and my physics teacher co-regulated with us on how to build bottle rockets. She would give us a plan and a time line and would ask if we were staying on track. She also asked what we needed help with and helped us come up with different designs. She also let us try out the bottle rockets a few times before the actual test to let us see what worked and what didn't and to see what we could do to improve on the design. This helped us to use the cycle of self-regulated learning and really helped us develop the metacognition skills.

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