Get Your Head in the Game - 5 Tips for Success in Learning

If you have any awareness of sports —or any type of game—you ' ve heard that the only path to success includes keeping your " head in the game. " In other words, you have tothink about what you are doing (or about to do). And you have to understand how you are thinking and make sure you are " thinking correctly " —that is, in a way that will let youperform at your best and get you closer to your goal.This idea of " thinking about your thinking " is calledmetacognition (met-ah-kog-NISH-un). And it works both in sports and in learning. It is especially important and effective in learning a subject as overwhelming as human anatomy and physiology.In other words, if you regularly step back from what you are doing and think about the strategies you are using (or forgetting to use) in your A&P course, you ' ll do better than if you just struggle along trying to " get it " all into your brain.There ' s evidence thatmetacognition alone can improve your success in learning. That means that just the process of regularly thinking about how you are managing your learning —by itself—can make you more successful. But that ' s probably because when you thus reflect on your own struggles in learning, you aremore likely to tweak your strategies and watch for pitfalls in ways that make you a better student of A&P.Some students do this kind of metacognition on their own because they ' ve either learned it along the way, or they have a mindset that ...
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