3. Self-Regulated Learning
Students are self-regulated when
they are, “metacognatively,
motivationally, and behaviorally
active participants in their own
learning process.”
(Zimmerman 1989, p. 329)
5. Research Tells Us…
When the learning environment provides:
Choice and volitional control over processes,
timing, challenge level, and outcome or
product of learning tasks
Students Engage in Self-Regulated
Learning Behaviors
6. Research Tells Us…
When the learning environment provides:
Complex tasks that extend over time, allow for
variation in expression style, and integrate
multiple processes, both cognitive and
procedural
Students Engage in Self-Regulated
Learning Behaviors
7. Research Tells Us…
When the learning environment provides:
Opportunities for help-seeking from resources,
peers, and teacher (e.g. small group
instruction and differentiation)
Students Engage in Self-Regulated
Learning Behaviors
8. Research Tells Us…
When the learning environment provides:
Opportunities for students to participate in the
processes of goal-setting, tracking progress,
and evaluating their own work
Students Engage in Self-Regulated
Learning Behaviors
9. Research Tells Us…
When the learning environment provides:
Explicit strategy instruction, both domain
specific and metacognitive strategy instruction
Students Engage in Self-Regulated
Learning Behaviors
10. Self-Regulated Learners
• Compared with low achieving students,
high achievers more frequently:
– Set specific learning goals
– Use a variety of learning strategies
– Self-monitor
– Adapt their efforts systematically
www.gifted.uconn.edu/siegle/selfregulation/section4.html
14. Planning and Self-Monitoring
• What skills do I need to achieve this?
• What help or assistance do I need?
• What resources do I need?
• What can block progress?
• Am I on task or am I being distracted?
15. Self-Reflection
● Did I accomplish what I planned to do?
● Was I distracted and how did I get back to
work?
● Did I plan enough time or did it take
longer than I thought?
● In which situation did I accomplish the
most work?
20. • Specific location for work
• Location should be distraction-free
• Set aside a specific time
• Daily, regardless of whether there is homework
or not
• Supplies and resources available and accessible
Environmental
Organizational
Strategies
21. • Specific location for work
• Location should be distraction-free
• Set aside a specific time
• Daily, regardless of whether there is homework
or not
• Supplies and resources available and accessible
Still true, but…
Environmental
Organizational
Strategies
22. Environmental
Organizational
Strategies
• Specific location for work, but realize the
digital environment is complex
• Location should be distraction-free
• Set aside a specific time, and work to increase
focus
• Daily, but “down time” is good too
• Supplies and resources available online and
students need access to the internet
31. Mindfulness
§ Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.
§ From the field of behavioral medicine
§ Used to control
§ Stress
§ Pain
§ Illness
§ Initial research conducted at the University
of Massachusetts Medical Center
32. Mindfulness Attitudes
§ Non-judging
§ Impartial witness to our own experience
§ Cultivates emotional intelligence
§ Patience
§ Things unfold in their own time
§ Delay of gratification
§ Beginner’s Mind
§ What we think we “know” impedes
understanding
§ Avoiding pre-conceived notions
33. Emotional Intelligence
The ability to monitor one’s
own and other’s feelings
and emotions, to
discriminate among them
and to use that information
to guide one’s thinking and
actions.
(Salovey & Mayer, 1990, p. 189)
34. Mindfulness Attitudes
§ Trust
§ Developing a trust of yourself and your feelings
§ Non-striving
§ Seems counter intuitive
§ Focusing on being clarifies what to strive for
§ Acceptance
§ Seeing things as they are
§ Enables one to act appropriately no matter
what is happening around them
35. Mindfulness Attitudes
§ Letting Go
§ Put aside the tendency to elevate some life
experiences and reject others
§ Cultivates emotional intelligence
§ Mindfulness is mind training.
§ “I am not thinking about that right now, I am
observing – training my mind”
§ “I am here to work on my mind”
36. Goal of Mindfulness
§ Achieve a state of stability and calm
§ Increase self-discipline
§ Increase feelings of well-being
§ Reduce feelings of dysphoria
§ Increase self-awareness
37. Mindfulness How To
§ Release Tension
§ Sit comfortably, spine erect, feet on floor
§ Allow arms to hang straight down with hands
about 10-12 inches from body
§ Close your eyes if it feels comfortable
§ Identify areas of tension in your mind or body
§ As you identify areas of tension, allow them to
dissolve and flow down the arms and out the
finger tips
38. Mindfulness How To
§ Mind Training
§ Sit comfortably, spine erect, feet on floor
§ Close your eyes if it feels comfortable
§ Bring your attention to your breath
§ Nose, mouth, lungs, or belly – wherever you sense
your breath
§ Do not control breath, just observe
§ Maintain your attention on your breathing
§ When your mind wanders, simply let the
thought go and return your focus to your
breath
39. Mindfulness How To
§ Focusing the mind is easier said than done
§ Requires consistent practice
§ Short and frequent
§ 5 to 15 minutes daily
§ Don’t force it!
§ When students loose focus, the time is up
§ Work to extend time each day
43. Mindfulness:
Practice of Being Present
• Wandering Mind? Bring it back.
• Watch the breath
– Baby Bear Attention
– Not “making” it happen but “letting” it happen
44. Mindfulness:
Practice of Being Present
• Witness Thoughts
• Let Go –
not of the thoughts,
but rather the judgment
• Seeking acceptance of what is
50. Reframe…
• I am successful because I am smart
• People like me because I am attractive
• I get opportunities because I am lucky
• I make mistakes because I am a failure
• I never win because I am a loser
• I get in trouble because the teacher does
not like me
56. It is impossible to live
without failing at something,
unless you live so cautiously
that you might as well
not have lived at all.
In which case,
you fail by default.
J.K. Rowling
76. 5 Categories of Risk
Intellectual
Social
Emotional
Physical
Spiritual
77. Systematic Risk-Taking
• Understand benefits of risk-taking
• Self-Assess for risk categories
• Identify personal needs
• Determine risk to take
• Take the risk
• Process the risk experience
(Neihart, 1999)
92. Don’t settle for mediocrity.
You don’t want to be left wondering
if you could have done more...
93. The greater danger for most
of us lies not in setting our
aim too high and falling short;
but in setting our aim too low,
and achieving our mark.
-Michelangelo