Metacognition: The Neglected Skill Set for Empowering Students

Metacognition: The Neglected Skill Set for Empowering Students
ISBN-10
1951075358
ISBN-13
9781951075354
Series
Metacognition
Category
Metacognition
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2020
Publisher
Solution Tree
Authors
Robin Fogarty, Brian M. Pete

Description

"In Metacognition: The Neglected Skill Set for Empowering Students, Robin Fogarty and Brian Pete emphasize the critical but often overlooked practice of enhancing deep, reflective thinking among students in the classroom. They explain how metacognition, or students' awareness of what they know and don't know, is the first step in addressing deficit areas and an essential ability if students are to transfer learning to other areas throughout their lives. Fogarty and Pete provide teachers with a framework for nurturing this skill set in students and gently guiding students' metacognitive behaviors, organizing the book around three categorical labels for the strategies that can promote self-reflection in learners' work: (1) planning, (2) monitoring, and (3) evaluating"--

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