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• Hands-Off Teaching Cultivates Metacognition | Edutopia

  "Metacognition (or thinking about thinking) is the secret to and driving force behind all effective learning. If you want your students to learn as much as possible, then you want to maximize the amount of metacognition they're doing. It's a pretty simple equation. The only problem is that most classrooms are set up to promote metacognition in the teachers, not the students."

  tags: education learning metacognition pedagogy science teacher development teaching

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