Metacognitive Skills

Consider a lesson plan you might use.  Which metacognitive skills/abilities are involved as students gain facility/knowledge in this domain?

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Think of an activity or lesson component that explicitly teaches one or more metacognitive and one or more problem solving skills.

The question I will answer for this post is the first question. The lesson I have chosen to teach over is sea life. First I will have the students write down what they know and what they want to learn. At the end of the lesson I will have them write down what they learned and if there is anything they don't understand from the lesson. This incorporates students' metacomprehension. It allows them to see what they have and have not learned or what they need more help with in regards to not understanding the material. 

I will also have them make a powerpoint, write an essay, or design a poster on sea life. I will provide students with a rubric of exactly what is A material all the way to what is failing. This allows students to self-regulate. They can look at the rubric while they are working on their projects and determine if their research is deep enough to satisfy the rubric content. It teaches students to be thorough with their work and how to self-regulate how efficient they are being with their learning time. 

One outside source I found is a website gives good notes and definitions of metacognitive skills for learners that can easily be applied to the classroom. I actually used it as the main resource for writing this post http://education.purduecal.edu/Vockell/EdPsyBook/Edpsy7/edpsy7_meta.htm

This outside is over metacognition in the classroom. It is a great resource for teachers to refer back to. http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/metacognition/teaching_metacognition.html