Reflection Paper

For this reflection paper, I want you to critically reflect on and apply the content from the metacognition portion of the class to your own learning strategies and also how to facilitate this in others.  As metacognitive skills are often not explicitly taught, they are often skills that students either have or don’t and can have a big impact on academic success and attainment.

First, describe the metacognitive skill(s) that you have acquired throughout your life, how you acquired them, and how they have served you (either well or poorly).  Then, I want you to describe how you would approach teaching metacognitive skills in a learning situation to facilitate student success.  This can either be a general view of how to promote metacognition OR can be a specific example (i.e., how to help a student who keeps studying “really hard” for tests and can’t figure out why he keeps getting D’s).