Why+Didn't+I+Think+of+That?

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Linda Schofield's, //Why Didn't I Think of That? Teachers' Influence on Students' Metacognitive Knowledge of How to Help Students Acquire Metacognitive Abilities//, was a thought provoking article for me. She looks at the theories behind metacognition. One explains it as the "self-awareness teachers and students use to think, to evaluate their teaching and learning needs, to generate strategies to meet their needs, and to implement those strategies as agents of their own thinking (p 57)." Included in the article is a list of activities that can support metacognitive growth; all relating to teacher modeling and excplicit instruction. This list is then compared to what a random sampling of 9th graders listed as "what teachers do, that helps them to think (p 59)." The main point I took away from this is teachers need to analyze how they think themselves inorder to put those strategies into lessonsfor their students. It connects back to the idea of a teacher's invisible knowledge and what can be done to pass that to our students.