PROMOTING METACOGNITION IN CLASS. USE OF MODEL ELICITING ACTIVITIES AND REVERSE ENGINEERING IN INITIAL TEACHER TRAINING

Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Francesco Maria Melchiori

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The contribution reflects on the need for teacher training to promote metacognitive skills in the classroom. The sample is composed of 110 teachers from the teacher training courses outlined in the DPCM 4/08/2023. We gave them Model-Eliciting Activities whose structural elements had to be identified through reverse engineering. The hypothesis we aim to test is whether collaborative and metacognitive reflection on MEAs could improve teachers' self-regulation and sense of self-efficacy


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Initial teacher training, Mental Models, Metacognition, Self-RegulationInitial teacher training; Mental Models; Metacognition; Self-Regulation

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