There are no silver bullets in education but if there ever was a secret weapon educators can deploy to improve student learning, it’s metacognition. Metacognition is a meta-level awareness of ...

Nord Anglia Education ("Nord Anglia"), the leading international schools organisation, has published the final report from its two-year Metacognition Research Project, one of the most comprehensive ...

This post is by Mike Amarillas, a 12th Grade Engineering teacher ar High Tech High North County. Last week I experienced my first round of student-led conferences (SLCs) at High Tech High North County ...

(This is the final post in a four-part series on the topic of metacognition in the classroom. You can see Part One here; Part Two here and Part Three here.) The new “question-of-the-week” is: What is ...

Understanding student motivation is a complex challenge. Factors such as mindset, personal values, anticipated outcomes, environment, and external expectations all impact motivation—which, in turn, ...

Metacognition is a high order thinking skill that is emerging from the shadows of academia to take its rightful place in classrooms around the world. As online classrooms extend into homes, this is an ...

Martin Wiener, Associate Professor, Psychology, College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS), received funding to study learning and metacognition for the perception of time. Via this research, ...

Metacognition is the awareness and understanding of your own thought processes with the goal of improving learning and performance. Put simply, it’s a way to manage your thinking and is the last ...