{"id":63021,"date":"2018-03-24T12:07:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T16:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=63021"},"modified":"2018-03-24T12:11:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T16:11:58","slug":"pastors-and-churches-too-should-consider-providing-their-congregations-with-metacognitive-check-ins-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/03\/24\/pastors-and-churches-too-should-consider-providing-their-congregations-with-metacognitive-check-ins-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastors and churches, too, should consider providing their congregations with metacognitive check-ins! [Christian]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">For those of you who attend services in churches\/temples\/synagogues, if I asked you to tell me what the 2-3 main key points were &#8212; along with the accompanying scripture(s) &#8212; from the last sermon that you heard&#8230;would you be able to tell me? Would you be able to retrieve those key points from your memory?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">With all these reflections going on in my mind about metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) these days, I did a mental pivot the other day and I moved the focus off of professors and teachers &#8212; and re-focused it towards the church&#8230;to pastors. I thought to myself&#8230;at the end of each sermon, wouldn&#8217;t it really help &#8220;solidify the message,&#8221; facilitate active reflection, and hopefully have more practical impact if pastors\/churches would provide:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">An extremely pared down list of the the main 2-3 key points; again using very few words (many churches already do this, I&#8217;m sure)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">For a little more detail (but not much more), the pastor could provide the outline of his\/her sermon in printed form <\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\">(some churches do this via a fill-in-the blank pre-printed sheet)<\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\">, or put it up on a slide that&#8217;s projected at the end of the service, or put it online even before the sermon was given that day<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">A list of metacognitive check-in type of questions such as:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">What did you understand in my sermon? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">What didn&#8217;t you understand in my sermon?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">What do you agree with? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">What do you disagree with?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">How can you apply this sermon this week?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">By doing this, pastors would help move their main point(s) into more of the long-term memories of the people attending services within their congregations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">#SelfRegulatedLearning | #Metacognition<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: For those of you who attend services in churches\/temples\/synagogues, if I asked you to tell me what the 2-3 main key points were &#8212; along with the accompanying scripture(s) &#8212; from the last sermon that you heard&#8230;would you be able to tell me? Would you be able to retrieve those key points from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,425,102,7,223,78,468,173,480],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daniel-s-christian","category-faith","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-theories","category-memory","category-metacognition-metacognitive-skills","category-pedagogy","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63021"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63027,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63021\/revisions\/63027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}