Cultivate Students' Metacognitive Ability In The Secondary It Teaching

Metacognition is the cognition to cognition itself. It refers to learners' automatic awareness of their own knowledge and their abilities to understand, control and manipulate their own cognitive processes. Metacognitive ability is the ability of control, manipulation and self-evaluation. A great deal of research enunciations that the development of metacognitive ability is the key to promoting the learning ability and cultivating the ability of lifelong study.First of all, the concept and connotation of metacognition is differentiated and analyzed according to the theory of metacognition. Based on analysis of various learning styles and mechanisms of the cognitive process of information technology, a teaching model is designed and built-up in our teaching practice for information technology. The teaching model is focused on developing and improving students' metacognitive ability for learning information technology. The major components of metacognitive strategy, including planning, monitoring, evaluation and modifying the cognitive process, are built into in the teaching model. A scale of metacognitive ability is put forward by dint of standpoint of the metacognitive structure that Dongqi & Liudianzhi. The scale contains 3 major sections of metacognitive strategy: awareness, comprehension and monitoring/controlling of cognition of the information technology study. The scale can be used to monitor the 5 facets of metacognition: knowledge, attention, monitoring, adaptation and evaluation. After the teaching experiment, the result is analyzed, and conclusion has been made that the students learning information technology with the help of the model demonstrated improved metacognitive ability.