The Cognitive Approach

The Cognitive Approach emphasizes to teach high-order thinking skills to students.  In the cognitive approach, teachers clearly teach learning strategies to CLD students to enable cognitive development. The four main learning strategies that apply to CLD students in cognitive approach are as follow: cognitive, metacognition, social affective strategies, and cross linguistic. These strategies may include students to do some classification, linking new information to prior knowledge, and ability to perceive the difficulty level of an assignment. The cognitive approach focuses on learning strategies that can help enable high-order thinking skills to students.

"The greatest sign of a success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." -- Maria Montessori

Cognitive approach as well as teachers are well looking for ways that can help the students learn the content in their own way of learning in using high-order thinking skills.