Metacognition in Education

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Across
  1. 2. learning: Learning through experience, reflection, new ideas, and another attempt.
  2. 5. Recognizing your own thoughts, emotions, strengths, needs, and effect on others.
  3. 8. experimentation: Trying a new strategy to test what was learned from reflection.
  4. 10. Thinking and making adjustments while an activity is still happening.
  5. 13. setting: Identifying a clear result you want to achieve and planning how to reach it.
  6. 14. Checking your understanding and progress while completing a task.
  7. 17. Information about a person’s work or performance that can be used to make improvements.
  8. 18. growth: Improving the knowledge, skills, and habits needed for a career.
  9. 20. question: A question focused on knowledge, understanding, reasoning, or how ideas connect.
  10. 21. Deciding what steps, strategies, materials, and time will be needed before beginning a task.
  11. 22. mindset: The belief that abilities can improve through effort, practice, feedback, and effective strategies.
  12. 23. reflection: Examining an experience deeply by questioning decisions, assumptions, beliefs, and possible biases.
  13. 26. feedback: Specific and helpful information that explains what is working and what could be improved.
  14. 27. question: A question focused on what happened and what can be learned from the experience.
  15. 28. Awareness of your own thinking and learning, including planning, monitoring, and evaluating your approach.
Down
  1. 1. observation: Looking back at an experience and noticing what happened and why.
  2. 3. Thinking about an activity after it has ended.
  3. 4. Judging the quality of your own work or performance using clear expectations or evidence.
  4. 5. Managing your thoughts, emotions, attention, and behavior to reach a goal.
  5. 6. practice: A repeated process of examining what happened, learning from it, and adjusting future actions.
  6. 7. cycle: A repeated process of experiencing, reflecting, developing ideas, and testing those ideas.
  7. 9. Thinking carefully about an experience or action to understand it and improve future decisions.
  8. 11. Judging the quality or effectiveness of a process, decision, product, or result.
  9. 12. experience: An event or activity in which a person directly participates.
  10. 15. question: A question focused on how a person planned, monitored, or evaluated their thinking.
  11. 16. conceptualization: Using reflection to form a new idea, explanation, or understanding.
  12. 19. ethics: Moral principles and professional standards that guide a teacher’s decisions and relationships.
  13. 23. improvement: Regularly making changes based on reflection, feedback, and evidence to produce better results.
  14. 24. question: An open-ended question that encourages someone to examine an experience, decision, or result.
  15. 25. plan: A specific set of steps for improving a result or reaching a goal.