Unit 2 - Identify metacognition in your lesson plan
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Unit 1 - The purpose and reasoning of metacognition
Lesson 3
Objectives: learner will review his/her own lesson plans, identify metacognitive thinking activities or lack of activities, and explain how the activities helped strengthen student understanding of the lesson.
To Do: review your lesson plans and select a lesson plan that you would like to develop metacognitive activities, and submit a self-assessment journal.
1. This lesson will be submitted on www.edmodo.com
- You can go to the “What’s Due” link at the top of your Edmodo course or you can use the link “Lesson 3 Journal Entry” link on the left
2. Look through your own lesson plans and review them to look for metacognitive activities
3. Choose one of your lesson plans to develop metacognitive activities
- It is suggested that you choose a lesson plan that is the least likely to have any form of metacognition
4. If metacognitive activities are not present, write an entry in a self-assessment journal. Indicate in your journal that you did not identify metacognitive activities. Use the following questions to guide your entry:
- What are the main objectives of your lesson?
- Why did you choose this lesson plan?
- What types of outcomes have you had from previous students on this material. For example, did the students fully understand the material, or were there areas in which they were lacking? If so, how were they lacking?
5. If metacognitive activities are present, write an entry in a self-assessment journal. Indicate in your journal that you did identify metacognitive activities. Use the following questions to guide your entry:
- What are the main objectives of your lesson?
- Describe the activities you consider metacognitive.
- Why do you consider these activities metacognitive in nature?
- In your experience, how have these activities affected the student’s learning and understanding of a concept?
- What types of outcomes have you had from previous students on this material?
6. The journal will be submitted as an assignment to the instructor, but use the journal as a place to sort your thoughts on your progress in learning about metacognition. When you prepare to move on to the next steps you should reread your previous journal entries and my comments.
7. See File:Rubric for Journal.pdf for grading and expectations. I’ll be adding comments in your document to help your progress
Tips on Edmodo assignments:
* Please enter your journals as Word documents, rather than a text submission. This can be created
right on the Edmodo website. Click on “Create” and you will see a drop-down menu, which contains
“Word” as an option.
*If you choose to write a journal entry on your own computer (which is a good idea) copy and paste
your entry into a new document you create on Edmodo to submit as your official submission.