The Role of Metacognition in Teaching Geoscience
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Hide A Carleton College geology student thinking through deformation history on a trip to Baraboo, Wisconsin. Photo by Tim Vick; used with permission.
An awareness of the learning process improves learning (e.g. How People Learn, NRC 2000). Yet students are rarely taught how to develop this awareness. We can help our students to improve their learning by incorporating metacognition into our courses: by having them think about their thinking and by helping them to become aware of and monitor their learning strategies.
We are in the process of developing a collection of resources about metacognition. Meanwhile, see the description of the fall 2008 workshop on metacognition below.
