Metacognition is defined as “thinking about thinking”. Metacognition consists of two components: knowledge and regulation. Metacognitive learning includes knowledge about oneself as a learner and the factors that might impact performance, knowledge about strategies, and knowledge about when and why to use strategies. Metacognitive regulation is the monitoring of one’s cognition and includes planning activities, awareness of understanding and task performance, and assessment of the efficacy of monitoring processes and strategies. Metacognition also improves with suitable instruction, with experimental evidence supporting the notion that students can be taught to reflect on their own thinking. Valuation of metacognition is challenging for a number of reasons: (a) metacognition is a complex construct; it is not directly observable; it may be confounded with both verbal ability and working memory capacity; and existing measures tend to be narrow in focus and decontextualized from in school learning. It identified self-directed learning as one of the life and career skills necessary to prepare students for post-secondary education and the workforce. However, educators may not be aware with the methods for teaching and assessing metacognition, mainly among elementary aged children. Educational psychologists have long promoted the importance of metacognition for regulating and supporting student learning but the question arises; how understanding of metacognition improve the way a students learn? There are number of strategies through which they can improve their learning; firstly, pre-service teacher’s used the self-regulated learning (SRL) method to enhance student learning. SRL promotes metacognition and it promotes deeper understandi...
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...achers and how the helps there students by Self- regulated learning. They use quasi-experiment because they want to see the action of retrospective learning in teachers to examine how this learning is helpful for pre-service teachers and is pre-services physics teacher is capable in teaching self-regulated learning (SRL) to their students. Those Pre-services teacher who scan both problematic and effective experiences develop more in their teaching SRL strategies. On the other side those who only focused problematic experiences not adapt SRL strategies. By merging two more factors; learning from problems (LFP) and learning from successes (LFS) into SRL model, pre-service teachers can enhance their confidence and experiences and the most important thing that how they can assist there students in learning SRL strategies in class room and promote the ideology of SRL.
The first four weeks of CR510 have prompted this student to reflect on her years of teaching in the public school setting. Having experienced many similar complexities to the ones in the text, this student is sympathetic to the challenges facing those in the education system and is eager to find opportunities to offer a better solution for all involved. CR510 has strengthened this student's belief that a third party neutral can provide valuable benefits to educational systems at all levels.
Define what metacognitive or reflective writing is. What are some of the prompts or “topics” for reflective writing?
Analyze the various processes within each of these three learning theories from a self-regulation perspective and recommend a strategy to use each theory in a professional situation in your specialization of psychology to enhance self-regulated learning.
The importance of cognitive reflection on both a personal and managerial level has grown in relevance in recent times linked to new concerns surrounding its direct effect on the way in which decisions are made. This essay aims to offer a clear overview of cognitive reflection, the test itself, how it provides one way of measuring cognitive ability and indicate why a well known and developed understanding of it is vital when considering the decision making process in practice. Further I will look to critically analyze the associated benefits and shortcomings of cognitive reflection, coming to a justified conclusion drawing on relevant theories and research.
Initial Reflective Essay When I first thought of what I wanted to do with my life after college, the first thing I thought of was helping people. The next step in deciding what I wanted to do with my life was to examine how I could accomplish this goal. I started pondering and I was thinking about how much I love to take care of my body. Health care and personal hygiene has always been an important factor in my life. So I decided to major in Health Sciences.
Amy was a recently graduated psychologist who had just opened up a new practice. John, her friend since grade school, calls her up in the middle of the night. It was immediately apparent that he was in distress and he tells her that he needs someone to talk to. He begins to confide in her about how his life has gone downhill lately, at first losing his employment and then his house. This increase in stress has also led to marital problems because he has been taking it out on his wife and it has turned into physical fights. His wife has now left him and he has become really depressed even having thoughts of hurting himself sometimes.
My primary personal thinking style is the Achievement Style, which is one of the constructive styles. Constructive Styles pertain to self-enhancing behaviors in ways of thinking, which determine a person’s level of satisfaction. These styles also pertain to the capability of effectively working with people, building healthy relationships, and being proficient at the accomplishment of tasks.
Writing is an important process which allows you to communicate professionally and academically, in an effective manner. Therefore, when writing it can be applied to any situation. It is best described when you are interacting between persons, places, and things. However, when taking ENG 3010, the main focus in the course was to analyze your academic major or future profession. More importantly, you had to learn how to identify different genres and how to develop your writing skills for particular contexts, purposes, and target audiences. When writing in these various scenarios, I found it to be a bit challenging. I was faced with these challenges only because I was unfamiliar with the writing situations. It was different from any other English course because the approaches suggested that you write for an audience only in your major. But with focusing on my writing skills within my discourse community, I was able to take my writing to a different level. The challenges that I faced became knowledge. It has helped me to ensure that all of my papers have balance and are well organized. As a result, I have developed strong skills with identifying modes of writing and communicating in my discourse community, research skills such as: writing a research proposal, literature review, annotated bibliography and proposing a working thesis. With these skills that I have developed from this course, I will be able to achieve the goals that are needed in my future classes and in the workplace after college.
My portfolio absolutely reflects my understanding of persuasive writing. Persuasive writing is the ability to use certain word choices in order to convince an audience to agree, or a least grasp, the topic that is being written about. My portfolio represents the goals and objectives of persuasive writing. The essays I have written for this course demonstrate that I have certainly developed my critical thinking skills, and also developed, or better yet, mastered my communication and personal responsibility skills; but, because terms of my lack of paraphrasing and analysis, my writing process is not perfected.
Second hand smoke is a different combination of air and the smoke that comes from the cigarette and the smoke breathed out by a smoker. This happens when a non-smoker is around someone smoking, therefore, breathing in secondhand smoke. According to the various research which were done by W H O, second hand smoke have been proofed to contain more than 7000 harmful chemical and 250 of these chemicals are known to be harmful to one’s health.
A good understanding of one’s own metacognition is necessary before aiming to understand that of other people. This is referred to as intrapersonal perception. Self-regulation, which involves self-monitoring and self-motivation, is an essential skill required to achieve academic success at university. It focuses on the concept of individuals being able to accurately judge their level of knowledge and determine the effectiveness of methods implemented for exam preparation. This allows evaluation of strengths and weaknesses, enabling individuals to engage in focused study. Students who can effectively do this will excel in their time at university. Conversely, those who lack in this skill can have major implications, such as overestimating their knowledge, thus hindering their success. Debra A. Bercher’s findings sugg...
Courage is an excellent trait to have and not many people have it. I know there have been times where I was not brave at all. Although, I can remember a few times where my braveness showed. I was about seven years old and I was about to perform on stage for the first time with my theatre group. I was scared that I would mess up one of the dance moves or slip and fall on stage. Then, I went on stage and I actually did very well. I was brave because I didn’t run away and hide, like I normally would have at that age and I pushed myself to do something that I was afraid to do. The affected me, because now I can do some things that I am afraid to do, like trying new things. Another time that I acted courageously was starting my first year of high
... to interchange ideas and clarify doubts or issues I have. I have to contain myself for doing the most of the speaking in some of the classes, overcome laziness to analyze how well or bad an activity or class turned out and think of better ways to do things when they did not work as I thought they will . To conclude I am aware that the only responsible of my learning is me. “Teacher training or education is something that can be managed by others; Teacher development is something that can be done only by and for oneself” Wallace, 1991.
Students should be given the opportunity to direct their learning in a supportive environment by not only regulating their performance but also selecting individual learning goals as the first thing. Regardless of the fact that self-managed learning’s are highly used in higher education, there is little direct evident to the strategies that enhance their efficiency as well as the factors that influence the engagement of students in self-management. When indoctrinating self-managed learning in higher education, teachers should always keep in mind that the starting point is definitely the student and thus respect should be given to his/her interests and visions of learning. In this, the teacher perceives the student and his/her world as a resource to be leveraged for classroom learning and teaching. One of the main characteristics of self-managed learning is that students usually take significant responsibility for personal learning beyond and above reacting to instruction. This implies that their teacher have an important role in assisting them acquire the necessary skills for self-managed learning. To do this, they have to clearly understand the perception of self-managed
Within the past few weeks of being in this course I have noticed an increase of aspects that I was unaware of that were affecting me. I have learned that I am not good with self-discipline, which then leads to stress that I am not very good at coping with. After participating in the activity in class about learning to say “no,” I have realized that I am they type of person that doesn’t know how to say no to others. I have been able to practice mindfulness and it has impacted me in a positive way with my relationship with others.