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About Thinking Skills
In addition to developing an understanding of how the human brain functions, this category of tools focuses on monitoring; thinking about the thinking process. Metacognition involves intentional planning, mentoring, and evaluating. Students share their strategies and thought processes as they become fully aware of what their brain does when it solves problems or performs other complex cognitive tasks. Metacognition also includes self-awareness. Students develop the ability to articulate how they learn best and to consciously adapt to challenging situations.
Art Costa shares twelve strategies for enhancing metacognition in his article "Mediating the Metacognitive," pg. 211 in Developing Minds, Volume I, Revised Edition, published by ASCD in 1991. Click on the Metacognition Self-Reflection tool in the Thinking Skills Tool Chest for a list of these strategies.
Last Updated Monday January 06, 2003
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