May 7th

Metacognition

Metacognition is generally known as the act of thinking about thinking and includes knowledge about when and how to use particular strategies for learning or solving problems.

With this process the students learn through self regulation to know what way is the best to study for them. Therefore, they know what kind of intelligence accommodates to them. These intelligences or learning styles are: visual, auditory and kinesthetic.

Also the teacher must model the class in order to monitor the students what they are learning. He/she could use some tricks to help students learn when teaching lessons. These tools might be acronyms and rhymes. This will help them remember during more time when information is connected to something else.

To recap metacognition is composed of three aspects: metacognitive knowledge or also called metacognitive awareness, metacognitive regulation and metacognitive experiences.