Metacognition and How It Can Help You As You Tackle Your Courses

Ever so often, Georgia Military College embraces a new plan of action focused on improving the quality of education and the learning process for its students. We call these plans Quality Enhancement Plans. Our last one focused primarily on how we can improve our Learning Support Service programs (LSS Math, Reading, and English). This cycle, we are embracing a plan of action focused primarily on helping students improve their critical thinking and metacognition skills. Many students are familiar with what we mean by critical thinking, albeit there is much debate about how to properly define the term and how to help students master it.  However, most students are not as familiar with the term metacognition.

To help you understand what it means and how to use it, we have provided a video which features Dr. Sandra McGuire of Louisiana State University, who is an author and guest lecturer on metacognition and how institutions like GMC can use it to enhance student's learning opportunities.  Dr. McGuire will actually be our guest speaker at the 2017 Spring Faculty Workshops.  The interview is on Youtube. All you need to do is turn up your speakers.

In addition, here is a great web article about metacognition provided by The University of Buffalo.
http://gse.buffalo.edu/fas/shuell/cep564/metacog.htm

Take a look at both of these resources, and see if you can use them to help you hone your thinking skills and enhance your learning opportunities at GMC and elsewhere.