Sarah Witte: Incorporating Metacognition into a Lesson Plan
Return to: | ETAP 623 Fall 2017 Sect 5420
Welcome to "Incorporating Metacognition into a Lesson Plan"
Course Overview
The purpose of this mini-course is to learn how to incorporate metacognition into a lesson.
Prerequisites
- The learner will be current teachers who have prepared lesson plans that have been used at least once in the field.
- The reasoning behind this is the learner is to reflect upon the benefits of adding metacognitive activities after a test group was performed compared to before the activities.
Course Level Objectives Learners will be able to:
- Explain the purpose and logic of metacognition
- Describe techniques for incorporating metacognition
- Review examples of the use of metacognition
- Create metacognitive activities and add to an already existing lesson plan of the learner
Materials Needed:
- File:Discussion Rubric for Metacognitive mini course.pdf
- File:Rubric for Journal.pdf
- File:Rubric for Peer Review.pdf
- File:Rubric for Rough Draft.pdf
Additional Information
The interactive portions of this min-course will take place on edmodo.com
How to get to the class on Edmodo:
* Go to the website https://www.edmodo.com
* Choose "I'm a Student"
* Create a profile/register, it’s free
* Go to the class dxaimq
* There is a "Help Discussion" group on the top left of the course, if you have any questions"
Units
Unit 1 - The purpose and reasoning of metacognition: Lessons 1 and 2
Unit 2 - Identify metacognition in your lesson plan: Lesson 3
Unit 3 - Incorporating metacognition into your lesson plan: Lessons 4-7
