Learn to recognize students who engage in and regularly use metacognitive strategies. Typically, such students are curious about what they are expected to learn. They also tend to make accurate assessments of why they succeed in achieving learning goals. These students think about failure and the breakdown in their learning process and can verbalize what they need to do differently. Students who have internalized metacognitive strategies seek different ways of learning and understanding, and they take time to think about what they think and why. From an early age, these students see themselves as learners.