Metacognition about teaching

During my early years as a faculty member, instinct guided my teaching style.  I really did not think carefully about teaching style or techniques. Meeting Kelley Skeff and spending a month learning about teaching at Stanford changed that.  He provided me a vocabulary and examples to allow me to develop metacognition.  What do I mean when I type metacognition – awareness and understanding of one’s own thought processes. If we want to help our new faculty, we should expose them to ideas about teaching.  We should provide a vocabulary to use in evaluating others and themselves. Reflect on your own teaching.  If you really think about your teaching, how did that happen?  What should we do to help early career attending physicians achieve metacognition earlier than I did. My favorite Skeff article – TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN CLINICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, VOL. 118, 2007 – available online.
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