Major+Project+2+-+Metacognitive+Journal

**__Assignment Process__**__:__ Individual **__Due Date:__** Last Session **__Background:__** We strongly believe that effective learning does not take place unless we make time to actively and positively think about what we are learning, why we are learning, and what will change because of what we have learned. For this reason, we do require a journal for this class. The minimum requirement is five entries, but feel free to use your journal more extensively to both document and develop your learning. **__Goals:__** We also believe that a journal is not intended to be a list of what occurred in class. It should be a reflective piece that looks back on class as well as homework time in order to make connections between what you are learning in this course and what you are currently applying in your teaching practice.. It should also be a time to use those higher order thinking skills we so often talk about in education. You should be using skills like application, analysis, and synthesis. **__Directions:__** 1. Write at least five additional entries in your journal (Blog) before the last session of class (see schedule below). The entries should be written towards the end of each week to reflect that’s week’s learning. 2. You may write as many additional entries as you feel would be helpful to your learning process. More are not required. 3. Take at least 15-20 minutes to reflect and write each journal entry. 4. Use high order thinking skills like application, analysis, and synthesis when reflecting on what you have learned in class and through your homework. 5. Your journal can be written in sentence/paragraph format or some other format that works for you. (You could even use a video blog or podcast if you prefer).
 * Metacognitive Journal**