BESA OPENING ACTIVITY REFLECT • As a group, make a summary of all your reflections using “ANY ACRONYM”. • Present your group output. What are
Strategies METACOGNITION STRATEGIES
methods used to help
students understand the way they learn; are processes designed for students to “think” about their “thinking” Connecting new information to former knowledge.
Selecting thinking strategies
deliberately
Planning, monitoring and evaluating
thinking processes METACOGNITION STRATEGIES THINK ALOUD • Great for reading comprehension and problem solving. • Think-alouds help students to consciously monitor and reflect upon what they are learning. • This strategy works well when teachers read a story or problem out loud and periodically stop to verbalize their thoughts. • This allows students to follow the teacher’s thinking process, which gives them the foundation they need for creating their own strategies and processes that can be useful for understanding what they are trying to comprehend Checklist, Rubrics and Organizers • Great for solving word problems. These organizational tools support students in the decision-making process because they serve as an aid for planning and self- evaluation. • Typically they ask what students know and need to know to arrive at an answer, and emphasize the need to reread the problem and self-check responses. Explicit Teacher Modeling
• Great for math instruction.
• Explicit teacher modeling helps students understand what is expected of them through a clear example/model of a skill or concept. • When a teacher provides a easy to follow procedure for solving a problem, students have a memorable strategy to use for approaching a problem on their own. Journaling
• Journaling is a great way to
prompt students to reflect on- and track -their growth as learners over time. • Dedicating a section of students’ notebooks for journaling creates a record of growth that will allow students to stand back and look at the overall arc of their development. • This is a really powerful metacognitive tool. Write-Pair-Share
• Like the name suggests, this
activity involves silent individual writing, small-group sharing, followed whole-group sharing. • Use the classic write-pair-share activity to cultivate metacognitive thinking about problem solving strategies. TQLR(Tune-in, Question, Listen, Remember) • TQLR – it is a metacognitive strategy before listening to a story or a presentation. • T – TUNE IN – It is first important for the learner himself to be aware that he is paying attention, and that he is ready to learn. • Q – QUESTION – the learner is given questions or he thinks of questions about what he will soon learn. • L – LISTEN – the learner exerts effort to listen. • R – REMEMBER – the learner uses ways or strategies to remember what was learned. PQ4R (Preview, Question, Read, Recite, Reflect) • PQ4R – this strategy is used in a study of a unit or chapter. • P – PREVIEW - Scan the whole chapter before delving in each paragraph • Q – QUESTION - Read the guide question provided, or think of your own questions about the topic. • R – READ - Check out sub headings as you read. Find out the meaning of words that are not clear to you. • R – RECITE - Work on answering the questions you had earlier. • R – REVIEW - Pinpoint topics you may need to go back and read in order to understand better. • R – REFLECT - Think about what you read. Some tips to develop students’ metacognition Final Thoughts
• The concept of Metacognition is
viewed as the glue that holds all the thought processes and preferences together. • It is this self-knowledge that is the ULTIMATE GOAL OF EDUCATION since it implies not just the “ Learning of Things” but “ Learning how to learn” which is essential to the goal of “lifelong learning” CLOSING ACTIVITY