Merry Wilson

Merry Wilson part of Metacognition:Workshop 08:Participant Essays
This essay page features Merry Wilson from Scottsdale Community College discussing the role of metacognition during classroom discourse, emphasizing how student-student and teacher-student discussions promote higher-order thinking, cognitive development, and science learning through argumentation, peer review, and instructor modeling within the context of a geoscience education workshop.

Reflective Writing to Construct Meaning part of Metacognition:Classroom Tactics
This educational resource page details a metacognitive teaching strategy using reflective writing prompts to help introductory geoscience students develop self-regulated learning by identifying knowledge gaps, articulating understanding, and planning improvement, with implementation guidance and context from a 2008 NAGT workshop.