Harold,

You bring up some great points. As a school administrator, I have often see teachers attempt to manage 'what' students learn more often than 'how' they learn. Of course there are basics that need to be learned, but by helping students develop metacognition teachers can increase the likelihood that students will take more ownership in the learning process. I feel that teachers may not always be aware of how they learn themselves, so therefore it is often hard for them to share in the process.

At the school I am currently working at, we work hard to create an environment that is collaborative and based on information-sharing. By doing so our teachers have become more open to new information and ideas from their peers. This has helped our teachers become more willing to create a classrooom designed to help students explore data in a way that helps them piece it together in ways so they (the students) learn from their experiences together.