Cognitive Strategies in Education
Cognitive Strategies
The purpose of this work is the first define metacognition and explain the four cognitive strategies of chunking, mnemonics, advance organizers and rehearsals and then to consider how each one might be useful in helping facilitate understanding of metacognition. Finally this work intends to create a sample lesson plan that represents the strategies.
Metacognition can be defined as the learner's awareness of the knowledge they possess as well as their ability in understanding, controlling and manipulating of their own metacognitive processes. Metacognitive skills are important both from an educational perspective and throughout the individual's life. Metacognition is a new field which has left theorists in a vague position in terms of conventional terminology. The primary factor in metacognition is the "conscious awareness" on the part of the individual in learning as to the learning taking place and their control of the learning process.
I. Metacognition:
Learners with good metacognitive skills are able to establish a motivation to learn a megacognitive process as well as focusing their attention toward the applicability of the metacognitive awareness in the learning process. Self-talk is a large part of the metacognitive process and although it may arise during their interaction with others it is the self-talk that is essential. The "self-talk" in metacognitive learning enables the individual to understand as well as encode the process and it also enables them in practicing the process. Further, self-talk enables the individual in making adjustments as to the effectiveness in use of the process and in obtaining feedback from others involved in the process. The learner is also enabled in the transfer of the process to a new application beyond the scope of the...
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