The Metacognitive Student: A Conversation With Author Richard K. Cohen

Author Richard K. Cohen joins Prisma Lopez-Marin to talk about The Metacognitive Student: How to Teach Academic, Social, and Emotional Intelligence in Every Content Area (Solution Tree, 2021), a book he coauthored with Deanne Kildare Opatosky, James E. Savage, Susan Olsen Stevens, and Edward P. Darrah. A 2021 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner and 2022 IPPY Award Gold Winner, the book explores structured SELf-questioning, a simple, straightforward, and practical strategy that works in all classrooms  to support students academically, socially, and emotionally.

 Tune in to:

●      Understand the need for social-emotional learning that existed before the pandemic, the growing urgency for SEL in today’s classrooms, and how we can rise to the challenge

●      Explore the why and what of structured SELf-questioning

●      Learn about the work of Dr. Grant Wiggins and Dr. Maurice J. Elias and their impact on the authors’ structured SELf-questioning strategy

●      Discover how structured SELf-questioning can help teachers build partnerships with students to provide academic and social-emotional support

●      Get tips on how to best use this book as a tool to improve student learning from classroom to classroom and districtwide.

 
Richard K. Cohen is the assistant superintendent of the Metuchen School District in New Jersey and serves as co-adjunct faculty at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Before becoming assistant superintendent, Rick led as principal for Red Bank Primary School in Red Bank, New Jersey, and acted as founding director of a new bilingual school, Colegio Americano, in San Salvador, El Salvador. He has served as a leader of social-emotional learning (SEL) at the district, county, state, and national levels.

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