Learning the metacognitive way

I use a metacognitive approach in my job as well as in my life. I know how I learn. I know what I need to do in order to retain the information and use it later. I know that if someone is going to explain to me a concept without using visuals, I'm going to smile and pretend I understand everything. Then I'm going to go home and figure out what they actually said.

I'm a metacognitive learner. And I teach students at the university and high school level how to use this tool. As students become more aware of how they learn, how they study, and how they can retrieve information quickly, the better student they become. The better student one becomes, the quicker it is to learn new material.

I see being a student as an ongoing lifelong cyclical neverending event. You don't have to be in school to be a student. And you don't have to be graded by others in order to learn a task.

Metacognition is being aware and using it.