When you are developing a plan of action, ask yourself these questions.

Students—and educators—can use a checklist of four metacognitive strategies to manage learning: understand and plan, monitor, evaluate, and loop back.

When you monitor your progress, ask yourself these questions.

When you evaluate how well you've done, ask yourself these questions.

As you work, you might need to loop back and modify your plan––or conduct additional monitoring and evaluation. You can utilize the question prompts for each step as tools to guide you in applying metacognitive strategies to any challenging task.

Consider your application of these strategies as you worked on a recent project. Did you make a plan? If so, when? How did you monitor your progress? How did you evaluate your work? Did you find yourself looping back? Click any strategy to zoom in and review the guiding questions.