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Assertion (A): Teachers should focus upon and encourage children to develop metacognition-ability to think on one's own thinking.Reason (R): Metacognitive knowledge is helpful for children to self-regulate their thinking.Choose the correct option.
Cognition is the mental processing of information, which is the function of the human mind that allows perceptions to grow into conceptions. When we have control over our own cognitive functions that are termed metacognition. Characteristics of metacognitive capabilities:Metacognition makes students' thoughts divergent and gives them control over their own functionalities.A teacher should have to promote the development of the metacognition of the students through different activities, experiments, and hand-on-performances.Metacognitive strategies include Self-correction as it refers to methods used to help students understand the way they learn; in other words, it means processes designed for students to 'think' about their 'thinking'.Metacognitive capabilities as a way to access the process and learning. The metacognitive strategies provided teachers with concrete actions and thought processes to reflect upon.If a student is able to think about their thinking/way of thinking, it is much more beneficial for their learning, they can improve their learning by changing their thoughts.It deals with the individual's awareness of the self as a knower and processor of information.It pertains to the students capability of setting goals for learning, estimating the success with which the goals are being met, and selecting alternative strategies to meet the goals.So by all these references, we can conclude that Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
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