NDE1030: NEPF Instructional Practice/ Educator Microcredential 4/5: IP Standard 4

This microcredential focuses on the implementation of the NEPF Teacher Instructional Practice Standard 4 - Students Engage in Metacognitive Activity to Increase Understanding of and Responsibility for Their Own Learning. Instructional Practice Standard 4 challenges teachers to facilitate students’ metacognitive activity to increase their understanding and to encourage them to take responsibility for their own learning. Metacognition describes the “processes involved when learners plan, monitor, evaluate and make changes to their own learning behaviors” (Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2022). Teachers must ensure that students understand what they are learning, why they are learning it, and they will know they have learned it; structure opportunities for self-monitoring for students; and support students in taking action based on their own self-monitoring practices. The use of metacognitive strategies “empower students to think about their own thinking and enhance control over their own learning and personal capacity for self-regulation and managing one’s own motivation for learning” (State of Victoria’s Department of Education and Training, 2020). Research by the Education Endowment Foundation has found that the use of metacognitive strategies can “add up to seven months of additional learning and improve the outcomes of disadvantaged learners” (Sword, 2021).