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LESSON: Metacognition, Self-Awareness for Learning

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Social-Emotional Learning All Ages Strategy

LESSON: Metacognition, Self-Awareness for Learning

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Teach It!

  1. Objective: Students will understand the importance of understanding their strengths and needs across skill areas: academic, personal and cognitive
  2. Teacher Takeaways: Academic success requires addressing not only a student's academic needs, but also their personal needs and interests. All students have a unique combination of cognitive skills that can affect their academic and personal needs. Students show variability in strengths and needs. Even if a student has many strengths, they might still need support in other skills.
  3. Instruction/Activities: a)Teacher-led discussion "The Sweet Spot of Learning" b)Student Reflection "Appreciating My Strengths" c) Group Discussion "World Economic Forum Career Skills" d) Small Groups "The Skills I Need for Career Success"e) Student Activity "This Is Me"
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Why It Works (the Science Of Learning)!

Personal and cognitive skills can be as important to success as academic achievement. While everyone has relative strengths and needs, understanding and addressing these differences can be critical to achievement. Lesson plan excerpted from the book The Empowered Student available from CAST Professional Publishing, the leaders in UDL.