🎯 Learning Intention

Today, I will reflect on how my thinking shapes my learning and choices.

✅ Success Criteria

I can describe one strategy I use when I get stuck and explain how noticing my thinking helps me grow.

🌍 Why Are We Learning This?

Because being aware of how you think (metacognition) helps you take control of your learning, problem-solving, and growth — in class, in work, and in life.

🧠 Warm-Up – Tech Journal Prompt

💡 “When you face a challenge in school or life, what’s the first thing you usually do — plan, ask for help, or dive in and figure it out? Why?”

→ Write 4–5 sentences in your Tech Journal.

📚 Word of the Day

Metacognition

• Definition: Thinking about your own thinking.
• Sentence: “Using metacognition, I realized I learn better when I break tasks into steps.”
• Why it matters: It helps you notice patterns in your learning and adjust them.

📣 Formative Lecture & Guided Discussion

• Define metacognition.
• Give examples: noticing when you’re distracted, when you learn best, or how you problem-solve.