Swimming pool exercise
A swimming pool has a palm tree on each of its corners. The owner decided that he wants to double the area of the pool while keeping it square and keeping the palm trees out of the pool. How can this be done?

Card exercise
Three cards lie face down on a table, arranged in a row from left to right. We have the following information about them.
a. The Jack is to the left of the Queen
b. The Diamond is to the left of the Spade
c. The King is to the right of the Heart
d. The Spade is to the right of the King.
Which card - by face and suit - occupies each position?

Metacognition

Judy Atkins, University of Saskatchewan:
Thinking about knowing
Learning about thinking
Control of learning
Knowing about knowing
Thinking about thinking

Strategies for enhancing metacognition (Perkins):
Strategy planning
Question generating
Conscious choosing
Differentiated evaluating
Taking credit
Outlawing "I can't"
Paraphrasing or reflecting student ideas
Labelling student behaviors
Clarifying student terminology
Role playing and simulations
Journal keeping
Modelling

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. - Andr'e Gide

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in seeing with new eyes. - Marcel Proust

So how can we meta-plan?
Meta-planning - what is it?

Planning about planning
Thinking about planning
Learning about planning
Control of planning
 

Understanding Rubrics by Heidi Goodrich Andrade

Homework task:
According to the rubric you created, assess an in-service course you have attended in the past, or assess this session of you created rubrics for individual sessions. Did you come across any problems, difficulties? Would you change any of the rubrics? Prepare a polished version of your rubrics to hand in next session. You need to hand in:
1) the original rubrics with the names of the people in your group
2) your assessment (a filled in version of the above)
3)  your reflections
4) your adjusted rubric (if necessary)