Teaching students how to master the art of learning

Learning about learning or Metacognition is a valuable skill that can easily be tailored to the needs of each student and taught in International school in Dwarka. Metacognition helps students understand their learning styles so that they can persist through difficulties and stay calm when mastery does not come easily. It also can be empowering to recognize that even though they are struggling in a class, the same content modified in a different way maybe more understandable. Researches have shown that students' ability to stick with difficult assignments is often a far greater measure of success than intelligence tests, and metacognition can help students to stay persistent with a task.

Self-talk is the simplest metacognitive strategy. When students from International school in Dwarka, tell themselves that they won’t be able to pass a test or accomplish a task, their confidence level sinks, their thinking slows down, and their attention is focused in the wrong place. If they can divert their minds to a positive message that reminds them why they are prepared and how much they have studied, their ability to demonstrate what they know greatly increases.

Memory devices also use metacognition. For example, many students learn the order of operations in math by using “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally to keep track of Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication/Division and Addition/Subtraction”. The brain finds it easier to group content when given a context, so learning these letters as individual units is hard whereas linking them to a sentence is easy. Some students can easily make the connection while others need explicit instruction, such as a framework to memorize the content.

If students understand how their own brain remembers words and how the brain processes information, they can be in control of processing information so that it suits their needs instead of teachers presenting information. For example, isn’t it easier to organize an essay using a visual organizer like a traditional word-based or outline a mind map? Researches show that using

The more students from International school in Dwarka, understand the strategies and learning process that are most effective for them as individuals, the more power they have over their learning. And the more teachers tailor lessons to cater to the individual needs, the better students’ experience will be.