Exam 1 set 2

Question 1

What is Metacognition?

Answer 1

awareness of thinking and the self-regulatory process behavior that accompanies awareness. (Knowing what you know, when you know, and what you need to know).

Question 2

What does metacognition depend on?

Answer 2

Person (age and mental state), task (new or old information), and strategy (ways to encode, store and retrieve)

Question 3

Does direct instruction encourage metacognitive growth?

Answer 3

No, especially in larger classes, when there is less dialogical instruction, students don’t encode information as successfully, and students don’t necessarily put things into practice in a way that encourages understanding.

Question 4

How do you help students self regulate?

Answer 4

Teaching not only what tools are but how to use them (example: a planner).

Question 5

What is reciprocal teaching?

Answer 5

Positively analyzed through any theoretical lens. It is a type of cooperative learning where responsibilities are passed to students through an organized process. Steps are: Predicting, Question Generating, Summarizing, and Clarifying.

Question 6

What’s the difference between development, maturation, and learning?

Answer 6

learning is through experience, maturation is natural/autopilot, development is a combo of these elements-physical, cognitive, social, and emotional