Metacognition

This picture is a great way for elementary students to learn about metacognition. It's thinking about their thinking!

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

A lesson plan that I might use would be a reading lesson that focused on comprehension and critical thinking. Students would read a story in a textbook and then summarize the main events and answer questions about the story to check for understanding. 

The metacognitive skills/abilities that are involved are  summarizing, comprehension monitoring, self-evaluation, and self-questioning. Students will have to be aware of if they can pinpoint the main ideas of the story. A student can assess this by making sure that their summary includes something from all of the major points in the story (beginning, middle, and end). Students will also develop awareness of if they comprehend the story when they answer the questions about the story correctly or incorrectly. Students can spend time answering the questions on their own, and then answers can be shared with the whole group. This way students can compare and contrast their responses and the instructor can emphasize the correct answers. Lastly, students will use problem-solving and their critical thinking skills to dig deeper and assess the responses they came up with and what prior knowledge they had that influenced those answers.