Metacognition — from ardentisptyltd blog
Excerpt (emphasis DSC):
When working with gifted children it is very important to consider metacognition. This is awareness of your own thinking. Metacognition can be taught and the best schools will start to incorporate metacognition from the very earliest levels. They might not call it metacognition but it will encompass self-reflection about learning, about task completion and about motivation. It can be helpful to consider your own learning style and how difficult it is to work out how you think when you first begin. Often children may not be aware of how they think but close questioning might assist.
Some metacognitive strategies to consider are…
From DSC:
When motivation is mentioned…does anyone have any good blog postings about how to help a student become motivated if –when they do their self-check on this — they discover or confirm that their motivation is very low for a particular assignment/topic that they are working on?
Addendum on 6/13/11:
I just saw this over the weekend from Steve Hargadon: