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by Allison Navas, PhD & Jillian Conry, PhD July 2026 All images in this blog were created using Canva Pro. The authors maintain an active Canva Pro subscription and use all visual assets in accordance with Canva's licensing terms. As we began to write up the strategies we recently shared for teaching metacognition that support our Teaching Metacognition™ framework, we began to discuss how these strategies would need to be adapted to fit different students’ needs. We realized

By Jillian Conry, PhD & Allison Navas, PhD July 2026 In developing The Teaching Metacognition™ Framework, which explores the relationship between higher-order thinking, learner motivation patterns, metacognitive skills, and student engagement, we reflected on the strategies related to each skill area that have been effective for our students and ourselves. We wish we had a strategy menu when we were growing up, rather than relying on trial and error to figure out which strat

Introducing the Teaching Metacognition™ Framework A framework for developing motivated, self-regulated, and autonomous learners By Allison Navas, PhD & Jillian Conry, PhD July 2026 Over the past several years, we have been interested in better understanding how metacognition relates to higher-order thinking and student motivation. The Teaching Metacognition™ Framework represents our attempt to operationalize several complementary bodies of research into observable learner be