1. Travel log
A metacognition exercise for preschool.
Art Department, GimnasioCampestre 2012.
By Pilar de Vivas and Diana Afanador.

2. The Train Journal is a metacognition exercise developed for the Art Department at
GimnasioCampestre under the ABCT Model.
It is an exercise that responds to the steps, strategies and the definition of metacognition
within the school. At the same time, it answers to the needs and potential of the students
at preschool level.
It is designed to be an ongoing, constructive assessment which will show evidence of th
metacognition skills that students acquire and use during the academic year.
Each set of 4 wagons will be used as the metacognition assessment tool for each bimes
At the end of each bimester, 4 new wagons will be added to the line to construct a yearly
evidence of the students process.

3. The wagons respond to the 4 steps of the
Metacognitive process and the fazes to
implement the steps. Two wagons focus on
The Engine is designed to the process and two wagons on the
assess the understanding product.
that students have of the
grade objective. Each one
of the squares is for each
bimester. In the
conductors window the
students should draw a
portrait of themselves.

4. The 2nd wagon The 3rd wagon The faces and the 4th
The first wagon focuses on answers to the third responds to the fourth wagon respond to the
the first Faze and the faze and the process faze and the product of second strategy and their
process during the class. In during the class. In their class work. They product of the class work.
the cloud there will be here students will will decide which work Through this exercise,
pictures of the work that the assess their own they feel better about children ask themselves
students have made during process during the and which one had about their performance by
the bimester. They would be class, if they reached more chance of choosing the face that
able to specify through: or not all of the class improvement. better reflects their work.
coloring, surrounding, goals through a visual And draw, paint, sketch,
cutting, etc. what the goal of (sketch) checklist. what they remember in the
the bimester was and what space of the wagon.
steps they followed to
achieve it.

5. Inside the smoke from the train students will find examples of their work as
well as drawings and sketches that will give them the tools they need during
the assessment e.g. photographs of their work, sketches that show class
goals, the thinking cap, etc.
Inside the wagons students will draw, paint, construct in plasticine, sketch, one
image that evidences what they understood of each faze, or what they found
most important.

6. • Students should be able to recognize this exercise during the
whole year and see their own process at the end of each bimester.
•The strategies that respond to the fazes answer to the abilities of
the age group of the students of preschool.
• This exercise allows different ways of technical completion which
will be decided on by the teacher depending on the grade who is
doing it, (PK, K, T) and the process that the students have led up
until the point of the assessment.