Strategies for Deepening Comprehension:

Enabling Your Students to Have an Aha! Moment

Ms. Molly CauterucciMs. Karen Sandoz

Strategies for Deepening Comprehension:Enabling Your Students to Have an Aha! Moment

Presented by Karen Sandoz and Molly Cauterucci

May 13, 20119:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

I. Welcome! IntroductionsII. Anticipatory GuideIII. The Power of Words video clipIV. Power Point PresentationV. Puzzles and MetacognitionVI. Work Stations

~ LUNCH ~

VII. Video ClipVIII. Using Op-Ed cartoons to teach higher order critical thinkingIX. Exploration

"To make an individual metacognitively aware is to ensure that the individual has learned how to learn."   (Garner), 1988

Anticipatory Guide

How do you learn?

How do you judge if you have learned specific material?

How do you self-evaluate throughout the learning cycle?

What are some metacognitive strategies that you have used to enhance your students’ comprehension?

The Power of Words

The latest National Assessment of Educational Progress shows that 32 percent of students entering high school are not proficient readers...“ (http://educationnorthwest.org/)

Metacognition

One of the first definitions of metacognition comes from Flavell (1976), who describes it as ‘one’s knowledge concerning one’s own cognitive processes and products or anything related to them’.

He also asserts that metacognition includes ‘the active monitoring and consequent regulation and orchestration’ of information processing activities (Flavell 1976: 232).

Metacognition: Learning about Learning

http://prezi.com/66g7oobhs8xi/metacognition/

“Is there enough agreement of the definition of the word ‘game’ so it can be used as an adequate metaphor for life or at least some aspects of life? I believe every game has some sort of strategy. Given that every player suspends disbelief and enters the spirit of the game, every player has a method in which they use to seek to win the game. What is your method? What is your strategy?”

Bob Bishop

PUZZLE TIME•What strategies did your group members use to complete the puzzle?

•What were your reactions and thoughts while solving the puzzle?

•How did you talk yourself through solving the puzzle?

Little Things are Big

Story Chain

Thinking about cheating…

Using Op-Ed cartoons to

teach higher order critical

thinking

Implications for instructionMetacognitive development supports students' internalization of

strategies. It does this through a conscious focus on the implementation of plans of attack. Metacognitive development fosters student autonomy through self-monitoring and self-assessment (Walqui, 1992). An example is teaching what a "good" reader does as he or she reads. http://learngen.org/Resources/

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