Learning to Be a Better Learner

Lesson 9 CL1A Understanding the Self with Salesianity

Professor Bienvenido J. Mendoza, MRS

Don Bosco Technical College Mandaluyong
STILL - Opening Prayer
Thinking about
Thinking
❏ How you process
information
❏ How you utilize
techniques

Higher chance of
improving your learning
process than those who do
not reflect on their
methods IN THE CONTEXT OF LEARNING
Concept of
Metacognition
“Thinking about thinking”
(Livingston 1997; Papaleontiou-Louca)

❖ Awareness of the scope and

limitations of your current
knowledge and skills
❖ It enables the person to adapt
their existing knowledge and
skills to approach a learning
task, seeking for the optimum
result of the learning experience
(American Institutes for Research 2010)

METACOGNITION
➔ It is not limited to the thinking process of
the individual.
➔ It also includes keeping one’s emotions
and motivations while learning in check
(Papaleontiou-Louca 2003)
The emotional state and the
motivation of a person then
should also be in the preferred
ideal state for that person in
order to further facilitate
his or her learning.

➔ Some people learn better:

◆ when they like the subject
◆ when they are challenged by the topic
◆ others if they have a reward system
each time they finish a task.
Two (2) Aspects of Metacognition
Self-appraisal Self- Management of
cognition
❏ Personal reflection
❏ The mental process you
on your knowledge
employ using what you
and capabilities have in planning and
adapting to successfully
lear or accomplish a
certain task
Variables Under Metacognitive Knowledge
➔ Personal Variable
◆ which your evaluation of your strengths and weaknesses in
learning
➔ Task Variable
◆ which is what you know or what you think about the nature of
the task, as well as what strategies the task requires.
➔ Strategy Variable
◆ refers to what strategies or skills you already have in dealing
with certain tasks
It must be noted that in order to
make self-appraisal and
self-management work, you must
have an accurate self-assessment
- you must be honest about what
you know and capable of in
order to find ways to utilize your
strengths and improve on your
weaknesses.
Do you feel that the results
do not represent you?
Skills That Can Help You In Exercising Metacognition

❏ Knowing your limits

❏ Modifying your approach
❏ Skimming
❏ Rehearsing
❏ Self-Test
Knowing your limits
➢ One cannot really make any significance
advancement in using metacognitive
skills without having an honest accurate
evaluation of what you know and what
you do not know.
➢ Knowing your limits also looks at the
scope and limitations of your resources
so that you can work with what you have
at the moment and look for ways to cope
with other necessities.
Modifying your approach
➢ It begins with the recognition that your
strategy is not appropriate with the task
and /or that you do not comprehend the
learning experience successfully.
➢ Recognizing, for example, that you are
not understanding what you are reading,
you should learn to modify your strategy
in comprehending your material.
Skimming
➢ This is basically browsing over a
material and keeping an eye on
keywords, phrases, or sentences.
➢ It is also about knowing where to search
such key terms.
➢ This techniques works best when you
want to get an idea about the contents of
a reading material, when you are trying
to read through several materials in a
limited time frame, or when you want to
focus on certain details, among others.
Rehearsing
➢ This is not just about repeated talking,
writing and or doing what you have
learned, but also trying to make a
personal interpretation or summary of
the learning experience.
➢ One of the fun ways to do this is by
imagining yourself being interviewed
about your tasks.
Self-Test
➢ As the name implies, this is trying to test
your comprehension of your learning
experience or skills you have acquired
during learning.
➢ Self-test does not only focus on what you
have learned but also on how you learned
it.
➢ What strategies did I use? How
successful were my learning strategies?
How can I further improve my learning
skills?
Other Strategies You Need To Develop
● Include asking questions about your methods
● Self-reflection
● Finding a mentor or support group if
necessary
● Thinking Out Loud
● Welcoming errors
Four (4) Types of Metacognitive Learners
➢ The ‘TACTIC’ Learner
○ Unaware of their metacognitive processes although they know the extent of their
knowledge.
➢ The ‘AWARE’ Learner
○ Know some of their metacognitive strategies but they do not plan on how to use these
techniques.
➢ The ‘STRATEGIC’ Learner
○ As the name implies, strategize and plan their course of action toward a learning
experience.
➢ The ‘REFLECTIVE’ Learner
○ Reflect on their thinking while they are using the strategies and
adapt metacognitive skills depending on their situation.
The goal of metacognition is
for the student to be a
self-regulated learner.
Education should not be limited by the
capabilities of the teacher, the content of school
textbooks, the four corners of the classrooms,
the online classes and materials uploaded and
the duration of the academic year or courses.
You should have have the capability
to study things on your own as well
as accurately evaluate your
progress.
Other TIPS you can use in studying:
➔ Make an outline of the things you want to learn, the things you
are reading or doing, and/or the things you remember.
➔ Break down the task in smaller and more manageable details.
➔ Integrate variation in your schedule and learning experience.
➔ Try to incubate your ideas
➔ Revise, summarize, and take down notes, then read them to help
you minimize cramming in the last minute, especially when you
have weaknesses in memorizing facts and data.
➔ Engage what you have learned.
Utilize and adapt the aforementioned
techniques in whatever learning experiences
you are about to accomplish and find
enjoyment and success in learning.
When You Believe - Closing Prayer
Learning to Be a Better Learner
Lesson 9 CL1A Understanding the Self with Salesianity

Professor Bienvenido J. Mendoza, MRS

Don Bosco Technical College Mandaluyong