Have you ever thought about thinking? This hot topic is known as metacognition, the awareness of understanding your thought process and understanding the way those patterns work behind them. It ...

There are no silver bullets in education but if there ever was a secret weapon educators can deploy to improve student learning, it’s metacognition. Metacognition is a meta-level awareness of ...

Most of my conversations about critical thinking (CT) inevitably refer, at some point, to its definition. This is an important trend because clarity is vital. Too often, discussions of this nature ...

(This is the final post in a four-part series on the topic of metacognition in the classroom. You can see Part One here; Part Two here and Part Three here.) The new “question-of-the-week” is: What is ...

If teaching were like following a recipe, it would be a much easier job. Unlike the reliable and straightforward process of baking a batch of chocolate chip cookies, practices that work in a morning ...

This post is by Sarah Collins Lench, the Director of Policy and Innovation at the Educational Policy Improvement Center in Eugene, Oregon. This is not another education think piece on “measuring what ...