Metacognitive Strategy

1. Metacognitive Strategy
Understanding The Way You Think
SOE 115 Psychology of Teaching and Learning
Clarence Staten

2. Introduction/Video
Metacognition is awareness
and understanding of ones
own thought process.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=7CVssaGGPDMI

3. Hypothesis
• By practicing and applying metacognitive strategies, students will become
good readers, capable of handling any text across a curriculum, and
contributing to the overall success of the student.
• Students who are able to successfully implement metacognitive strategies into
their everyday learning will eventually be able to utilize strategy thinking well
into adulthood.

4. Metacognitive Strategy?
• Metacognitive strategies refers to methods used to help students understand the way they
learn.
• The strategies are process designed for students to think about their own thinking.
• Teachers who use metacognitive, can positively impact students who have learning
disabilities, by helping them to eventually develop appropriate routines.
• As students become aware of their learning abilities, they will use these processes to acquire
new information.
• This can help students to become more independent thinkers.

5. Think Aloud!
• Thinking aloud is a metacognitive strategy great for helping to improve reading
comprehension and problem solving skills.
• Think-aloud, helps students to better monitor what they are learning.
• This strategy works well when teachers read a story or problem and stop occasionally to
verbalize their thoughts, to further understand that the student is comprehending the text
content.
• This can help students to follow the teachers thinking process, which can help set the
foundation needed for creating their own strategies and processes.
• These tools will only strengthen the student comprehension development and thinking
process.

6. Thinking Methods
• Using check list, rubrics and organizers is excellent ways to promote problem
solving within a learning environment.
• These tools support students in the decision making process, because they can assist
with planning and self evolution.
• Teaching a student to organize their ideas into a plan of action, only further helps
with the student comprehension.
• Organizers such as KWL charts, which ask a student what I think I know, what I
want to know and what I learned. This method is used to help with the students
learning development.

7. Reading Comprehension
• Comprehending reading involves students actively engaging with text and accurately
understanding the context meaning.
• It is important for students to develop solid reading comprehension skills, statistics show
that people who have low reading comprehension ability suffer with academic, professional
and personal pursuits.
• There are three methods teachers can use to know whether the student is developing with
their comprehension, be aware of what they do understand, identify what they do not
understand, use appropriate strategies to resolve problems in comprehension.
• Challenge the students to best summarize their reading martial, which will allow for the
teacher to better understand the student strengths and weakness, when it comes to text
evaluation.

8. How To Implement
Metacognitive Strategies In
The Classroom
The video attached is a good example of how a
teacher can incorporate metacognitive strategies
in the classroom.
Metacognitive initially may seem to advance to
incorporate in a early childhood education
classroom, however the teacher in the video
gives a good example of how 3rd graders can
begin to think about their own thinking once
given the proper tools and strategy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkGiplxf
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9. Conclusion
• Implementing metacognitive strategies in the classroom is a good way to help
students begin to think about there own thinking.
• When students think about their own thinking, this strategy can lead to
students learning development to further develop at a higher rate.
• The ultimate goal of the strategy, is to get the student to think outside their
normal thoughts, which can further help with their comprehension level.
• Teaching the method of metacognitive strategies assures that students will be
able to successfully use strategy thinking well into adulthood.

10. References/Credible Source
• Metacognitive Strategies. (2015, September 03). Retrieved from
http://inclusiveschools.org/metacognitive-strategies/
• Adler, C. (n.d.). Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension. Retrieved
November 01, 2007, from http://www.readingrockets.org/article/seven-strategies-teach-
students-text-comprehension
• What Is Meta cognition? (2016). Retrieved from
http://www.benchmarkeducation.com/best-practices-library/metacognitive-strategies.html