a strategic metacognitive approach
Ø promote learning strategies so that learners can
§ experiment with and self-assess a variety of strategies
§ grow in awareness, flexibility and self-regulation
learner empowerment
© Luciano Mariani 2006
www.learningpaths.org
Both tasks are examples of what we could call a strategic metacognitive approach:
•The key idea in both approaches is to prompt learners to face a task in an active way, to go beyond the task so that they can monitor it.
•Through the practice of metacognition learners are encouraged to experiment with and self-assess a variety of strategies.
•As they become aware of their own strong and weak points, they grow in awareness, flexibility and self-regulation – which is what is mean when we talk about empowering learners.