Student Agency

Self-regulation enables students to learn more effectively.

Forethought - planning

Performance -  effort and perseverance

Self reflection.- effectiveness and outcomes of actions.

Cognitive strategies used to support the learning, remembering and understanding of new content and skills. 

• Self-regulating students both pursue and persist with learning. 
• They effectively manage 
• information
• resources
• time and 
• feedback, in order to gain and process new knowledge and skills as well as identify and harness new opportunities.

How to develop self regulation in practice:

• 1. Create complex, open-ended learning activities with opportunities for student choice about how to engage in the work
• 2. Provide explicit instruction on successful learning strategies such as self-instruction, planning and monitoring work, managing resources, help-seeking, homework partners, and self-evaluation
• 3. Develop tasks that provide optimal, and gradually increasing, level of challenge, accompanied by a shared belief in the importance of challenge and error for learning
• 4. Emphasise learning and down-playing of the importance of grades or marks
• 5. Provide opportunities for reflection on the effectiveness of plans and learning strategies and to develop next steps for learning

Guiding Questions:

Do you teach students strategies for planning, monitoring and modifying their work?

How do you equip students with strategies that will help them to persevere when engaged in a challenging task?

Do you provide feedback to students on their learning process?

Do you explicitly teach students how to reflect on their learning and to identify next steps in their learning?

What opportunities do you provide for students to reflect on their learning and their next steps?

Souce: self regulation

Develop learning-focused relationships with learners, enabling them to be active participants in the process of learning, sharing ownership and responsibility for learning.