Critical Thinking Assignment: Metacognition

Critical Thinking Assignments: Metacognition

Adolescents spend a great deal of time focusing on their education, about 6.8 hours of their day Monday-Friday. Children in between the ages of 12-18 thought process transitions from concrete to formal logical operations (e.g., "Cognitive Development," n.d., para. 2). Metacognition is the individuals’ awareness of their own thought process. When an individual understands their thought process their mindset is exponential which is the ideal mindset (Price-Mitchell PhD, 2015). An exponential mindset is one that allows you to expand your knowledge and progress they can expand on their intelligence (Lenz, 2014).

To self-regulate is important to succeed in a school environment. Researcher found that

(2010). For schools to promote metacognition, self-regulated learning, and critical thinking in their students; It all starts in the classroom. Ways schools can encourage metacognition is by; informing students on metacognition, implementing reflections in assignments, learning journal, testing formats.

Informing students on what metacognition is and how it works, through this they will have a better understanding on what it is they’re doing. They will be able to reflect on their performance (Price-Mitchell PhD, 2015). Schools can implement something in the core class rooms informing students about the brain and how it works with metacognition. When they learn about the things working behind the scenes they will better understand how to apply this to their lives.

Strategies that can be added or used more in classrooms would be, to encourage students to reflect on their lessons. Through reflection they’d figure out what areas they found troublesome, they could then ask questions on what they found confusing (Price-Mitchell PhD, 2015). This is something that teachers have used in the classroom my only problem when they ask if anyone has any questions at the end of the lesson I do not think everyone asks the question they want to ask right then. I think it would be better if they required the students to write out any questions they’ve had, and they address them that way