This post argues that fundamental concepts and bottlenecks ground metacognitive instruction by providing anchor points and guiding instructors towards promising teaching strategies .
In this post, John Draeger reflects on his involvement with Improve with Metacognition (IwM) over the last three years. He describes several ways that the site has helped improve his self-awareness and self-regulation. Consequently, he has noticed improvements in his life as a teacher, a writer, and a scholar.
In this post, Dr. John Draeger offers a model of academic rigor to frame discussions about course design, instruction, and assessment. He also argues that “if tools for reflection (e.g., a model of academic rigor) help instructors map out the most salient aspects of a course, then metacognition is the mechanism by which instructors navigate that map. If so, then promoting academic rigor requires metacognition.”
In this post, John Draeger shares his attempts “to promote metacognition through Just-in-Time techniques to a larger section of introductory ethics (175 students), and, it further explores how Just-in-Time assignments can promote metacognitive reading.”
In this post, John Draeger encourages instructors to think about how they might tweak their current teaching strategies to promote student metacognition. He offers is own attempts to fine-tune his Just-in-Time Teaching assignments as a model.
In this post, John Draeger describes his effort to promote metacognition among both academics and business professionals. While not a “magic elixir,” metacognition puts us on the road towards better planning, better monitoring, better acting, and better alignment with our overall goals.
In this post, John Draeger describes his experience teaching a course on philosophy love and sex. He argues that teaching a new course requires metacognition.
In this post, John Draeger argues that the phrase ‘thinking about thinking’ can start helpful conversations around both critical thinking and metacognition. He goes on to consider similarities and differences between these two important collections of skills.
John Draeger expands his Aristotelian conception of metacognition. He argues that “learning well is a holistic endeavor that requires cultivating various interlocking intellectual and emotional traits, such as curiosity, courage, and patience. Moreover, a holistic conception of metacognition suggests that learners must cultivate honest self-scrutiny and discerning vision alongside their efforts to improve self-monitoring and self-regulation.”
In this post, John Draeger considers what Aristotle would say about metacognition and the pursuit of learning excellence. Aristotle would remind us, for example, that learning is a holistic endeavor that requires the cultivation of various intellectual and emotional habits.
In this post, John Draeger describes his efforts to promote metacognition through just-in-time teaching assignments in his philosophy classes.
Todd Zakrajsek considers the importance of focusing on the process of learning and looking for opportunities exercise our understanding.
Tesia Marshik considers widespread misconception that effective learning depends on a particular learning style.
In this post, John Draeger explores the relationship between awareness, self-regulation and metacognition. He considers whether awareness and self-regulation are necessary for metacognition as well as whether there are advantages to focusing on elements individually en route to strengthening their interaction.
John Draeger explores the conceptual nature of metacognition. Appealing to a model developed in legal philosophy, he concludes that the term ‘metacognition’ is vague, but this is actually desirable because it promotes dialogue about all the elements in the metacognitive constellation.
John Draeger argues that higher-order thinking and metacognition questions can be built into to pre-class assignments typically designed to gauge basic comprehension. By making these prompts a regular part of weekly assignments, instructors provide students with multip