METACOGNITION AS TEACHING AND LEARNING APPROACH FOR SCIENCES, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS TEACHING

Abdulrahaman Aliu; Rasheedat Bukky Kadir; Akilu Isma’il

METACOGNITION AS TEACHING AND LEARNING APPROACH FOR SCIENCES, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS TEACHING

Abdulrahaman Aliu, Rasheedat Bukky Kadir, Akilu Isma’il

Abstract

Due to global challenges in term of social and economics, the world has given great attention to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) teaching not only in higher education but primary and secondary education. This innovation is to equip the young people to compete in the job market and economic development. STEM is an interdisciplinary approach which presents the academic concept couple with real-world problem. Thus, teachers need to prepare for such transformation, particularly the way to impact knowledge on STEM. This paper systematically describes how to strengthen the efforts of teaching STEM to achieve better learning through metacognitive approach.

Keywords

Metacognition;Approach;Teaching;Instruction;Learning

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