Metacognition

Metacognition

Project Description

Assessment for Learning is perhaps one of the few things that all teachers agree upon both pedagogically and politically. Not all teachers can spell Dylan Wiliam’s name though, let alone actually read the original material. Actually understanding the conceptual framework of a subject is remarkably challenging: discerning ideas and connections can be impossibly ambitious. Asking someone to tick a rubric or rate their perception of their learning is much more doable. 

Here you will see some of my MA reviews of metacognition, and my promotion of teaching students to gain the sense of the right time to use subject-specific strategies. 

Essay Scenarios – Practice in Elite Sport Transferred to the English classroom

Essay Scenarios – Practice in Elite Sport Transferred to the English classroom

I think the thing with metacognition is for students to move beyond listing subject-specific strategies (which isn’t that tricky), and instead to actually conceptualise what they might mean. Writing is an idiosyncratic process so what works once may not work again (at least for a while…). It is also a fairly tacit process, so just articulating a strategy again is not necessarily helpful.

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