Hiya! Happy Monday! Metacognition is a hot topic in Education right now! But what is it and how can you implement it easily? Well I am here to help you today!
For the easiest way to incorporate something into my classroom quickly, easily and cheaply is using an anchor chart! {I might LOVE making anchor charts too!} Anchor charts make thinking visible and aid in instruction, classroom management and more!
First off what is metacognition? Metacognition is awareness and understanding of one’s own thinking. Well if anchor charts make thinking visible what better way to teach metacognition?!?!?!?
First up anchor charts that introduce metacognition to students. As a teacher I would create one of these at the beginning of the year, or after the PD in which you are told to start increasing Metacognition {wink}.
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Then I would take metacognition into my subject areas. Reading seems to be a natural place to start!
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However Math is also a great place to use metacognition. I find the more students use metacognition in math the better they are at explaining their thinking and solving tougher problems.
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And finally evaluation their learning, wether before they turn in a paper or how well they understand a new topic.
I always used a 1-5 scale that the students can show on their fingers.
So now you should have at least some new ideas for anchor charts for metacognition. Which one are you going to try first?
