Awareness of one’s own learning interests, processes and preferred strategies, including learning needs and required support. Learners need to be aware of their learning dispositions and preferred learning strategies but also of their attitudes and values.

Planning and implementing learning goals, strategies, resources and processes. To monitor a learning activity, learners need to be aware of their comprehension and performance while executing the learning task, to persevere in a successful learning strategy or to modify one that is not working.

Reflecting on and assessing purposes, processes and outcomes of learning and knowledge construction, establishing relationships across domains. As learners improve in their comprehension of the learning processes, they will be able to recognise that learning activities in different domains are similar, and therefore the same strategy can be transferred and applied across different areas.