1. 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. Many students waste a valuable resource their teachers give them that could help them to improve their future performance
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3. Successful students learn efficiently by using the feedback they receive from the monitoring and evaluating to improve their future performance.
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4. [Students reflecting on learning aids metacognition and gives teachers feedback on students' understanding of concepts taught] Journals also help me assess students' ability to transfer what they have learned, to evaluate their own performance and their ability to use this awareness for improving their future performance.
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5. [Feedback creates understanding] Students need to understand WHY they are wrong so they can learn better strategies and/or concepts and avoid repeating the same mistakes.
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6. [Teachers should spell out and share their learning goals for each lesson with their students to provide them a means of assessing their own learning] Do you have objectives identified for each lesson? And do you share these objectives with the students?"
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