Metacognition

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

Last week as a class, we were asked to form a lesson plan for a constructivist or cognitive learning lesson. I used the idea of teaching shapes to first graders and how to implement that into a classroom. As a teacher, there are also a lot of metacognition aspects that I would like to implement, too so that I will be able to expand my students' thinking skills. 

On the website Metacognition: An Overview, the author, Jennifer Livingston talks about the idea of metacogition in the classroom. One aspect that I foudn interesting and helping is that it is about helping the students "think about their thinking". This can come in a variety of ways but one way that I found interesting was the aspect of questioning their work and what they wrote to make it more salient in their homework. This can be seen in the way that the students look more in depth of why they said an answer. For instance, if a student is looking at objects in the real world that represent the shapes, they will be able to apply what they are looking at and asking more in-depth questions about what they see such as "why do the shapes really matter for that particular object". These type of questions will really help the students gain a better grasp on the material.