MANAGING AND CARING FOR THE

SELF-METACOGNITION AND STUDY

STRATEGIES
• What is metacognition?
• It is the awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes.
• The term comes from the root word META, meaning "beyond", or "on top of“
• it is "cognition about cognition", "thinking about thinking", "knowing about
knowing", becoming "aware of one's awareness" and higher-order thinking
skills.
 Two Dimensions of Metacognition

• Metacognitive Knowledge

• Metacognitive Regulation
 What is Metacognitive Knowledge

• Metacognitive Knowledge includes the your knowledge of

your own cognitive abilities.
 Kinds of Metacognition Knowledge

• Awareness of Knowledge
• Awareness of Thinking
• Awareness of Thinking Strategies
 What is Awareness of Knowledge

• Understanding what one knows, what one does not know,

and what one wants to know.
 What is Awareness of Thinking

• Understanding cognitive tasks and the nature of what is

required to complete them.
 What is Awareness of Thinking Strategies

• Understanding approaches to directing learning.

 What is Metacognitive Regulation

• Describes how learners monitor and control their cognitive

processes.
 Ways we direct our own learning
• Planning approaches to tasks
• Monitoring activities during learning
• Checking outcomes or results
 What is Planning Approaches to tasks

• Identifying the problem, choosing strategies organizing our

thoughts, and predicting outcomes.
 What is Monitoring Activities during learning

• Testing, revising and evaluating the effectiveness of our

strategies.
 What is Checking outcomes or results

• Evaluating the outcomes against specific criteria of efficiency

and effectiveness.