Questions to Consider:
Consider a lesson plan you
might use. Which metacognitive
skills/abilities are involved as students gain facility/knowledge in this
domain?
Think of an activity or lesson
component that explicitly teaches one or more metacognitive and one or more
problem solving skills.
As a high school English teacher, I plan on having my students begin most days engaging in a brief, creative writing assignment (i.e. journaling). A topic will be provided, but I hope that students will use their own experiences, backgrounds, and interests to shape their writing into something that is uniquely their own.
As for broader use in a lesson plan, I believe that any time I teach a literary work, students' discussions will be examples of verbal reasoning and argument analysis. Literary interpretation and analysis is a major venue for metacognition as we are taking different viewpoints represented in the text, using evidence within the text, and then using logic to determine how the evidence works to support those viewpoints.
