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CHAPTER 2
Metacognition: The Self-Aware Student
PRODUCT PREVIEW
In Chapter 1 you considered the traits of winning athletes. Successful athletes practice long hours to perfect their skills and techniques. What goes through the mind of a good athlete when they are training? Are they thinking about what they watched on TV the night before? Are they wondering what to wear to school the next day? Do they just go through the motions of practice? Good athletes do not just “go through the motions” of practice! Successful athletes focus, laser-like, on their skills. They set goals to know what they want to achieve. They control their body movements, adjust their speed, motion, and strategy for optimal performance. They gauge their progress by timing themselves, tracking completions, and assessing their performance. A good athlete is self- aware . Self-awareness is an important trait for students too. In this chapter you’ll learn the importance of being a self- aware, metacognitive student.
Learning Goals By the end of this chapter you will be able to: 1. Define metacognition. 2. List the traits of a self-aware student. 3. Identify poor metacognitive skills in a series of examples. 4. Complete a survey of their personal metacognitive skills.
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