Metacognition.

Question 1

What is metacognition?

Answer 1

Thinking about thinking.
Being aware of your own thought processes.

Question 2

What are methods of metacognition.

Answer 2

Planning and goal setting for yourself.
Monitoring your own process.

Question 3

How can we improve how students perform and monitor their own learning?

Answer 3

Teach children that their ability is not fixed and that they are able to change this.
Teach children how to set goals and plan to meet them.
Give students opportunities to practice self monitoring and adapting.

Question 4

Positives of metacognition.

Answer 4

Building up a set of transferable strategies and skills that they can apply to new situations and subjects.
Better preparing for assessments.
Monitoring their own understanding
Identify Barriers to their own learning and minimise them if possible.
Learning from mistakes in order to improve in the future.
Adapting their learning strategies for the task.