Instruct
Learning Approach
By following a four-step metacognitive process, my experience is that students more readily demonstrate learning and application. A critical success factor is aligning activities with learning goals.
- Introduce: The first metacognitive phase often focuses on motivating students, explaining what is to learn and identifying “what you know” and “what you don’t know”
- Instruct: The instructor and, at times, students present materials and provide guidance for learning. The key role when instructing is to clarify the information and link the content to the session goals. Following best practices and standards for online and blended learning, varying techniques and tools is likely to accelerate learning.
- Apply: My passion is to share with students how I apply what I learn. Clarifying the content is a starting point for determining best practices/standards for methods to apply what they have learned. When criteria for assessing and grading are included, students are likely more motivated to think through and act on what they are learning.
- Assess: The last step in the metacognitive process is assessment. The process supports student critical thinking with reference to the content. Now the student can demonstrate learning and actually make or influence organization change. Multiple forms of formative and summative assessments may provide evidence of what the student has learned and accomplished. According to Malamud, learners may show increased self-confidence when they build metacognitive skills. (Malamud, 2016)
- Teacher: Arlene Scott