Metacognitive Domain

The metacognitive domain is about teaching people how to learn.
According to Alley and Deschler there are eight steps to teach someone how to learn
1. Observe the student performing the task
2. Explain the student's approach (verbalizing each step)
3. Explain the desired approach
4. Demonstrate the new approach (verbalizing each step)
5. Encourage questions before, during, and after the demonstration
6. Have the student verbally rehearse the steps until he or she can state them without error (provide corrective feedback to the student during rehersal)
7. Have the student practice with stimulated materials (again offering corrective feedback immediately)
8. Have the student practice with actual materials

The metacognitive domain involves the collaboration of all other domains. Because it is about learning how to learn it may be the single most important learning domain. I typically learn the best overall by having to actually perform the steps required, like in TSTM 370 using Oracle When I am entering commands into Isql it is helping me to learn better because i am physically typing in the data i need analyzed. Learning by doing is the best way to learn, just listening is simply not enough to always learn without actually performing the steps.