Metacognition is the use of reflective awareness to make timely adjustments (self-regulation) to behaviors that support a goal-directed process (e.g. learning, teaching, driving, cooking, writing, athletics, music).

This site will help you…

  • Improve your teaching with metacognition
  • Improve student learning with metacognition
  • Improve your professional life (and beyond) with metacognition
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Why engage in this site: You can benefit & You can help others 

What you can contribute:

  1. What are your Practical Strategies for implementing metacognition?
  2. Help us Understand Metacognition and its impact (e.g. how is it conceptualized? What are the impacts of incorporating metacognition? )
  3. Participation in our IwM Community. (Coming in the new year: Join us for synchronous and asynchronous discussions to give/get feedback on ideas for implementing or researching metacognition, discuss books / articles, etc.)

Benefits of contributing: Get feedback to refine your ideas; Broader recognition for your work; Add a reviewed publication to your resume/vita; Participate in intellectual engagement with a community

How do I contribute?  Blog guidelines; Video Guidelines; Joining the community (coming soon)


 

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This website received the MERLOT Classics Award for Faculty Development 2018