Metacognition

Throughout my sophmore year in Miami Country Day School I fully developed an understanding of the Advanced Placement World History course. Not only did I learn the basics of this course, but I also learned to think above and beyond the basics and challenge my mind to the skills of critical thinking. Through this process I developed many habits of mind. The main habit that I focused on throughout this course was to understand how things happen and how things change, how human intentions matter, but also how their consequences are shaped by the means of carrying them out, in a tangle of purpose and process.This habit of mind truly defines my experience in the World History Course. At the beggining of the year, all I really focused on was knowing the context that this course requires. However, as the year progressed, I learned that more important than knowing the context is knowing how to analyze the information. By analyzing the context of this course I was able to better understand why and how things happen, why they change, and how human intentions matter. I realized that its crucial to know how to define, describe, and analyze everything in order to develop the patterns that form our history. Overall, this course not only taught me all about our world's history, it also taught me various crucial skills that will be beneficial to me in the future.