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Description

Discover how metacognition can make the difference between a student’s success and failure and how you can teach it to preK-12 students. Metacognition is a tool that helps students unlock their brain’s amazing power and take control of their learning. Authors Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers share a practical way to teach students how to drive their brains by

• Adopting an optimistic outlook toward learning
• Setting goals
• Focusing their attention
• Monitoring their progress
• Engaging in practices that enhance cognitive flexibility

The authors present useful metaphors, learning strategies, and instructional tips that you can use to teach your students to be the boss of their brains. Sample lessons show these ideas in classroom settings; sections on professional practice help you incorporate these tools so that you are teaching for metacognition as well as with metacognition.

Grades:

PreK-12

Author(s):

Donna Wilson & Marcus Conyers

Publisher:

ASCD

Year:

2016

Pages:

134 pp

Media/Binding:

Softcover

iSBN:

9781416622116