By Jaya Carrier
I hope you’re all having a good week so far. Given its central importance in supporting student progress and learning, metacognition is something we’ve had lots of blog posts about. To add to this growing area, I was interested to see an Edutopia article focusing on the benefits of metacognition for writing skills.
Objectives: To consider specific strategies for using metacognition in written tasks.
Summary:
- The author suggests finding ways to encourage students to consider how they approach writing, what the barriers to writing might be, and strategies that help them to write successfully.
- The author suggests that these areas are important in addition to a rubric or success criteria
- The author recommends a number of ways to support metacognitive writing:
- 1) Keeping a journal or diary - this is where students take breaks during a longer writing process to write down their thoughts about the barriers, strategies and approaches they are taking.
- 2) Making a list of strategies - encouraging students to create an ongoing list of strategies they use when writing
- 3) Writing collaboratively - with the teacher, or with peers. Students can discuss the choices they are making in deliberate ways.
- 4) Using a graphic organiser - to collate thoughts about writing over time or during the writing process for a particular piece of work
- 5) Reflecting after writing - focussing on the ‘big picture’ with questions such as ‘what would you do differently if writing again? Why?’ or ‘what strategies did you use that worked well? How do you know?’
Some reflections arising from this that might be helpful to consider are:
- How am I currently using metacognitive strategies to support student learning?
- Which of these metacognitive writing strategies can I incorporate into my practice? What support do I need to do this?
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