The following pages contain suggestions for developing metacognitive strategies--strategies that will help your students think about how they think and how they learn. These strategies will help them with critical thinking, organizational skills, and taking responsibility for their learning – skills so necessary for life, language, school and culture.
Select the strategies that will best address the needs of your students. You may want to introduce these strategies to the whole class, small groups or individuals as necessary.
Remind students to continually use these strategies in as many areas and tasks as they can. Develop a routine of modelling metacognitive strategies for your students. eg: think out loud, draw graphic organizers to illustrate your point.
See Guide to Teachers for more information on metacognitive strategies.
Check the following websites for additional ideas on thinking about how we think:
Multiple
Intelligences:
Explanations, examples and lesson ideas sorted by subject area
Creativity Web – Resources for Creativity and Innovation
Several ideas for stretching your students’ thinking. Try clicking on the Mental Workout Centre
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~caveman/Creative/index2.html
Word Safari: Vocabulary Expeditions
http://home.earthlink.net/~ruthpett/safari/
Strategies of Intelligence: A Model for Learning
http://www.soisystems.com/model_for_learning.pdf
http://www.newhorizons.org/trm_soi.htm