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# Metacognitive Knowledge

CPD: Metacognition for Teachers (by Jonathan Firth), topic 3.1.1

## Metacognitive Knowledge

Metacognitive knowledge is what a person knows about cognition. It refers to their thoughts and beliefs about how thinking works.

### Accurate knowledge of learning

![Accurate knowledge of learning](https://image-v2.cdn.app.senecalearning.com/2018-09/e4dc28ad-27f8-4c91-8820-1dc5aed3fbcc/teach-teacher-learn-.jpg)

- Researcher Paul Pintrich (2002) argues that while metacognitive knowledge is important, the really crucial element is that what people believe is accurate. 
- Students often lack accurate knowledge of how learning works.
- Although teaching your students about metacognition may sound complex, all it means it starting to talk to them about how learning and thinking work.

### Younger learners

![Younger learners](https://image-v2.cdn.app.senecalearning.com/2018-08/29743cc3-88e3-4eb9-adf8-cf3ab78d0cf7/children-talking.jpg)

- Even very young learners can be told about how rapidly forgetting progresses, or about the way that learning can be biased by our assumptions. 
- These conversations start to build metacognitive knowledge.

### Older learners

![Older learners](https://image-v2.cdn.app.senecalearning.com/2018-08/8b8fe72e-5d3c-4418-a049-9fd23954a4b6/teenagers-boy-girl.jpg)

- Older learners can develop a much more sophisticated level of metacognitive knowledge.
- They may enjoy looking at some of the research evidence on the spacing effect in memory and can start to develop an awareness of good study habits.

### Techniques

![Techniques](https://image-v2.cdn.app.senecalearning.com/2018-04/6077a81d-d7f5-4eef-8313-701e8ad0548d/shutterstock_704601229.jpg)

- Another area of metacognitive knowledge is a learner’s store of techniques that help to help scaffold the early stages of learning and overcome forgetting. 
- These include the use of mnemonics that will make new and difficult terms, formulae or character names easier to remember.

## Test yourself on Metacognitive Knowledge

- Which of these is NOT true about metacognitive knowledge?

[Practise this topic for free](https://app.senecalearning.com/classroom/course/d1277cd6-7205-4511-8d95-1f1ed341ae69/section/5e6ec906-eba7-4659-9453-92593fb05177/session)

- Previous topic: [2.1.2 Beliefs & Self-estimates](https://senecalearning.com/en-gb/revision-notes/teacher-cpd/cpd-metacognition-for-teachers-seneca-certified/2-1-2-beliefs-and-self-estimates.md)
- Next topic: [3.1.2 Metacognitive Monitoring](https://senecalearning.com/en-gb/revision-notes/teacher-cpd/cpd-metacognition-for-teachers-seneca-certified/3-1-2-metacognitive-monitoring.md)

## CPD: Metacognition for Teachers (by Jonathan Firth) contents

### 1 Basic Concepts About Metacognition
- 1.1 Thinking About Thinking
  - [1.1.1 Metacognition & Metamemory](https://senecalearning.com/en-gb/revision-notes/teacher-cpd/cpd-metacognition-for-teachers-seneca-certified/1-1-1-metacognition-and-metamemory.md)

### 2 Practical Implications for Learners
- 2.1 Practical Implications for Learners
  - [2.1.1 Planning & Learning Strategies](https://senecalearning.com/en-gb/revision-notes/teacher-cpd/cpd-metacognition-for-teachers-seneca-certified/2-1-1-planning-and-learning-strategies.md)
  - [2.1.2 Beliefs & Self-estimates](https://senecalearning.com/en-gb/revision-notes/teacher-cpd/cpd-metacognition-for-teachers-seneca-certified/2-1-2-beliefs-and-self-estimates.md)

### 3 Areas of Metacognition
- 3.1 Areas of Metacognition
  - [3.1.1 Metacognitive Knowledge](https://senecalearning.com/en-gb/revision-notes/teacher-cpd/cpd-metacognition-for-teachers-seneca-certified/3-1-1-metacognitive-knowledge.md)
  - [3.1.2 Metacognitive Monitoring](https://senecalearning.com/en-gb/revision-notes/teacher-cpd/cpd-metacognition-for-teachers-seneca-certified/3-1-2-metacognitive-monitoring.md)
  - [3.1.3 Metacognitive Control](https://senecalearning.com/en-gb/revision-notes/teacher-cpd/cpd-metacognition-for-teachers-seneca-certified/3-1-3-metacognitive-control.md)

### 4 Teacher Metacognition
- 4.1 Teacher Metacognition
  - [4.1.1 Teacher Metacognition](https://senecalearning.com/en-gb/revision-notes/teacher-cpd/cpd-metacognition-for-teachers-seneca-certified/4-1-1-teacher-metacognition.md)