1. [Metacognition helps guide lessons] Executive management metacognition in teaching includes planning what and how you are going to teach, checking up on or monitoring how the lesson is going as you are teaching, making adjustments as needed, and evaluating how a lesson went after it is finished. Based on internal and external feedback, the last phase of evaluating is planning how to improve your future performance in similar situations, thereby completing an executive management cycle (Sternberg, 1985).
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2. Metacognitive skills represent higher level cognition and they are different from the more basic, cognitive skills. Cognition is to thinking what metacognition is to thinking about thinking. Metacognitive skills are thoughts used to manage task performance. Metacognitive skills include those executive level processes (planning, monitoring, and evaluating) which drive the rest of intelligent behavior. As such, they are sometimes referred to as the boss skills. The cognitive skills carry out the boss's commands, so they are the worker skills
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