The role of metacognition

According with physiologists, Metacognition refers to our learning processes, thinking about thinking. It means, how someone learn to process information to achieve a new knowledge. Metacogniton enable us to be successful learners, and that we want foster to students.
How can we foster metacognition?
1. Activate background knowledge
2. Identify the students`s type of intelligence
3. Give tools to build their own knowledge
4. Control and regulation activities
5. Tell them to reflec on their learnling
6. Show them how to self-assesment






Automatically is the learning process that occurs unconsciously. We perform things every day without thinking how and why we do it. 
And the other hand, we have the cognitive load. Cognitive load is the excessive amount of content given to the students which results in the brain working harder to process all the information