It's like knowing when the student is about to cry. Lots of 'stuff' that seems like a really big deal today soon will be automatic. WWW metacognition is an inevitable, unintended outcome of our times. Many problems and complaints are just going to go away. If you need a learning model, check out ICML .
Expertise seems to require mentoring and deliberate practice .
Mastery learning was developed as a sort of second best thing to mentoring. Early attempts included the Keller plan. Mentoring brings about 2-sigma improvements in learning. Mastery can approach that. I feel very comfortable in recommending mastery learning strategies.