Learning to Think, Thinking to Learn : A Metacognitive Skills Program for Student Success

Learning to Think, Thinking to Learn: A Metacognitive Skills Program for Student Success is designed to help students develop resiliency, self-facilitation, initiation, and executive function skills that contribute to academic success. The text is built upon a strong model of executive function development within a metacognitive framework. It helps students develop behaviors critical to success, identify and leverage their unique strengths within their courses, and learn how to effectively overcome internal and external obstacles.

Opening chapters introduce students to the unique framework for the text and explain how the workbook has been designed to foster academic success. The following parts guide students through a series of exercises that help them develop particular skills. In Part II, students hone the five skills in the executing group: initiating, planning, comprehending, monitoring, and evaluating. Part III introduces six additional skills: motivating, shifting, regulating, controlling, allocating, and task progressing. The final part focuses on the skills of self-reflection, self-correction, and resiliency.

Providing students with a deeply reflective and highly interactive experience, Learning to Think, Thinking to Learn is an ideal resource for first-year orientation and student success courses and programs.

Dr. Katherine Pang is a licensed psychologist in Dallas, Texas, and the founder of Lakewood Wellness Partners, as well as MetaCogSkills and Brain Skills for Kids. She is the founder of EdWay Online and has served in numerous faculty positions across the United States both in the classroom and online. Dr. Pang has a Ph.D. in educational psychology (cognitive), a master’s in clinical psychopharmacology, and post-graduate certificates in neuropsychology, lifestyle health, and primary care psychology. In addition, she has two law degrees (a J.D. and an L.L.M. in taxation), an M.B.A., a master’s in educational technology, a master’s in psychology, a master’s in divinity, and a master’s in theology.