•Discuss one or more questions or confusions that you have from reading the module (on social cognitive theory). You should comment on these within others' posts.
One thing that confused me was the three categories of metacognitive knowledge because I thought they were so similar that I had a hard time differentiating them.
-Describe in detail how you could involve metacognitive knowledge and regulation (such as self interrogation or theory of mind) while teaching within your content area. Metacognition in music and art education, for example, should look very different from reading comprehension strategies.
My content area that I will be teaching is ballet and the first step to incorporating metacognitive knowledge and regulation into my content area would be to have my students engage in metacognition. It is very important for students to be aware of how they learn best and what their memory is capable of. Some dancers learn better when the teacher gives a combination with the music while other dancers have an easier time picking up the combination if the teacher gives counts or combinations with some sort of pattern. Whatever their learning strength is they need to teach themselves how to incorporate it into every ballet class they take. There are three categories that metacognitive knowledge falls under and they are person knowledge (aka declarative knowledge), task knowledge (aka procedural knowledge) and strategy knowledge (aka conditional knowledge). Person knowledge is essential to not only ballet class but to everyday life because it deals with understanding our own capabilities. A person must have a firm understanding of what they are capable of whether it is ones strength or weakness. Strategy knowledge would be the most important knowledge for dancers to have because they need to be aware of what type of conditioning works the best for their body. When teaching I will make sure to explain/demonstrate things in more than one way so that my students know what works the best for them. I would also incorporate metacognitive regulation by teaching my students different ways they can cross train to improve whatever they are struggling with. I also feel that positive reinforcement works as a great way to control our thoughts, beliefs and emotions. I will make sure my students know how to keep themselves motivated and thinking positive.
•Critical thinking involves primarily the control of information, the ‘analysis, synthesis, and evaluation’ of information to solve a problem or reach a goal. Metacognition involves the control of thinking, or monitoring and evaluation of thinking and learning strategies. Which do you feel is more relevant to your content area? Why? Give an example if possible.
In my opinion, metacognition is much more relevant to ballet. I strongly believe that the mind is extremely powerful when you are doing something as physical as ballet. It is essential for dancers to control their thinking and be very aware of the learning strategies that work best for them. Analyzing and evaluating ballet can be good on occasion but it is much more beneficial to be aware of how you learn the best and evaluate your own thinking and learning strategies.
Person knowledge (or declarative knowledge) is the factual information that can either be declared verbally or in writing. This also concerns what an individual knows about themselves. This also concerns how human beings learn and process information.
ReplyDeleteTask knowledge (or procedural knowledge) concerns how one does something, or how to preform the steps in a process. This knowledge also concerns the type of processing demands that a task will place upon an individual.
Strategy knowledge (or conditional knowledge) is the knowledge about when to use a certain procedure or strategy, and also when not to use it. Students begin to see why one procedure works better than another, and under what condition it works best under.
Person knowledge is the understanding that an individual realizes in themselves, such as "I'm not so strong on musical dictation" or "My reading skills are pretty strong". This type of knowledge is prominent between kindergarten-high school.
ReplyDeleteTask knowledge is the type of knowledge that realizes how difficult or easy a certain goal or task is going to be for the certain individual. This type of knowledge is seen in all ages, but in different context of knowledge.
Strategy knowledge describes how capable a certain individual is at using strategies to accomplish a task or goal. Younger individuals aren't very strong at using this type of knowledge because it is hard for them to learn how to strategize in the first place! From ages 8-10 is when this type of knowledge is used.