Metacognition TIPR

Current Teacher Behaviors

1. My cooperating teacher is helping the students develop metacognition and become more self-regulated by providing learning strategies such as setting goals (planning and focusing attention) and self-questioning/self-testing (cognitive monitoring). These are mostly used when the teacher incorporates the heart rate monitors into his lesson. He uses heart rate monitors twice or three times per week during the 45 minute, workout portion of the class. The students have goals that have been pre-set by all the physical educators. The heart rate monitors have been preprogrammed to have a heart rate goal set for all the students. The students must hit the heart rate goal for at least 80% in order to receive full credit for the day. The only issue that I see with this, is that all the students are going to have different heart rate goals during their exercise. I think it would be more beneficial for the students to set their own heart rate goal to work towards, instead of having one already set for them. He uses self-testing (cognitive monitoring) throughout the workout to also have the students self-test themselves regarding their heart rate.

Students Needs

2. I think that the students would benefit greatly by being exposed to other strategies. I think that the students would benefit greatly by having a workout chart and having the students check off with one another when the complete the exercise safely and correctly. I also think that the students could benefit by explaining to a peer the benefits of a particular exercise so they know the real reason why they are doing it. If the students are given more appropriate strategies, I think that they would apply themselves even more then they already do. This could be very valuable for them.

Plans for your Lesson

3. I have lots of ideas to incorporate more of these learning strategies into the lesson plan that I will be teaching here in the next few weeks. One of the strategies is to spend more time on the demonstrations of the more difficult workout exercises that I have planned. This will go under the "study the right information in the right way" section of the textbook provided in the module--page 361. I will also use questioning to check the students understanding of the workout stations.