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Promoting Self-regulated Learning in
K-12 Schools
Dr. Allyson HadwinUniversity of Victoria
Lynda HutchinsonUniversity of British
ColumbiaStephanie HelmUniversity of Victoria
SRL CANADA: Consortium for SRL in Classroomswww.srlcanada.ca
Introductions
• Associate professor in Educational Psychology
• Co-director of the Technology Integration & Evaluation Research
• Instructor for ED-D101: Learning strategies for University Success
Allyson Hadwin
• PhD student
Lynda Hutchinson
• Research Coordinator
Stephanie Helm
Nancy Perry
Agenda8:00 – 8:30 Introduction:
What is SRL & why is it important in my classroom?
8:30 – 9:30 How can I promote SRL in my classroom?Tasks and Environments for SRL
9:30 – 9:45 Coffee Break
9:45 – 10:30 ACTIVITY 1: Planning an SRL ActivityWork with teacher in your grade level
10:30 – 11:15 Where do learners go wrong?Supporting the emergence of SRL
11:15– 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:15 ACTIVITY #2: Supporting SRL
12:15 – 1:00 How can we work together to develop SRL in our classes and school?Developing sustained SRL practices
What is SRL?
Self-regulation vs.Self-regulated learning vs.
Self-directed learning
Clarifying terms…
• Self-regulation
• Self-regulated learning
• Self-directed learning
What is Self-Regulation?
• Self-control of thoughts and actions to achieve personal goals and respond to environmental demands (Zimmerman, 2008)
• It involves …o Attending to key features of the environmento Resisting distractionso Persisting when tasks are difficulto Responding appropriately, adaptively, flexiblyo Controlling or adapting emotionso Delaying immediate gratification to meet a
more important long-term goal
Often emphasizes behaviour & emotions
Developmental vs. Educational Perspectives
early years primarily basic (executive processes) behaviour & emotion control atypical development often situated in research labs
& involving non-school tasks
school years & beyond higher order processes Learning in academic tasks metacognition typical and atypical learners mainly situated in or oriented to
classroom tasks & contexts
Developmental Focus Educational Focus
Self-regulation in LEARNING
Involves … Metacognition Motivation Strategic action
Metacognition
Awareness of learning strengths and weaknesses
Ability to analyze the demands of tasks/activities
Use of effective thinking and problem solving strategies to cope with the challenges tasks present
Knowing...What you knowWhat you don’t
knowWhat you need to
know
Motivation
Genuine interest in learning Belief that ability is incremental Focus on personal progress Willingness to try challenging tasks View that errors present opportunities to learn Belief that effort and effective strategy use will
lead to success
Strategic Action
Choosing from a repertoire of strategies those best suited to the learning situation
Applying strategies effectively and efficiently
Self-Regulated Learning refers to:• Strategic engagement -- learners are
engaged, thinking, proactive, responsive and reflective
• It involves …o Complex metacognitive & social processeso Intent, agency, and goal directednesso Dynamic interplay between tasks, teachers,
peers, parents, contexts & cultureso Personal history (knowledge, beliefs,
experiences)o Adaptively responding to challengeso Reflectively learning from past experiences
SRL develops over a lifetime
Early Years
Middle Years
Secondary &
Beyond
I self-regulate my learning …
Self-regulated vs Self-directed
Share similar components…
• Process or cycle• Involves self-control • Role of individual agency• Self-assessment• Self-monitoring• Self-management
How are they different?
Self regulated learning• Origins in educational psychology• Self-defined goals + strategies• Choosing strategies for learning• Monitor, evaluate and regulate learning
processes and products• Cognition, motivation, metacognition• Monitoring and Evaluation • Regulation or adaptation is the mark of
SRL
Self-directed learning• Origins in adult education literature• Self-defined learning objectives + tasks• Choosing means of learning • Select, manage, and assess own
learning activities• motivation, self-management• Reflection and Evaluation • Autonomy is the mark of self-directed
learning
Taking control of the
Learning tasks, objectives and
outcomes
Task Choice
Taking control of your
LEARNING Processes
Strategically regulating learning
Why is SRL important in my
classroom?
Why should teachers care about SRL?
Why is SRL important?
• Self-regulated learners are successful in and beyond school. Higher motivation and confidence Productive thinking skills and strategies(cognition) Better academic performance On task behaviours
• All students benefit from instructional contexts that support SRL, even students with exceptional learning needs.
• SRL promoting practices prompt teachers to consider the needs of all learners.
...for early success in school Low levels of self-regulation before school predict academic
difficulties in school. Emotional regulation (coping with frustration, persisting) Behaviour regulation (following directions, working independently)
Children with poor regulation have problems with behaviour, completing academic tasks, and relating to peers and their teachers.
Performing well on tasks that require self-regulation predicts early school achievement even more powerfully than IQ scores and knowledge of reading and math.
Successful self-regulation in kindergarten predicts achievement through grade 6.
... for middle years success
Stage Environment Implications for SRL
Desire for autonomy Tighten control Fewer opportunities
Self-consciousness Increase social comparison
Lower motivation
We need to create environments that are psychologically safe and intellectually challenging—encourage autonomy but provide appropriate levels of support.
See J. Eccles & Colleagues writings on the topic stage-environment fit.
... for high school success
• Learning to take responsibility for their learning and motivation
• Preparing for transitions to work or post-secondary where they will need to work and learn independently & collaborativelyo Learn to grapple with complex tasks o Experience learning challenges – challenges are
opportunities to learn to SRLo Effort appropriately applied not just more efforto Context of tasks – bigger purpose, not just “things the
teacher needs to have a grade”
...for post-secondary successSelf-regulation is associated with:
Higher grade point averageHigher motivation and self-efficacy Increased effort and persistence
Students who take ED-D101:Higher GPA after taking the courseVery low risk of dropping out Increased knowledge of self Increased knowledge and use of strategies
... in life outside of school
• Ian Thorpe talks about goal setting (and self-regulation) in his training.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y9tZy9EXOs
Why promote SRL?
• Critical 21st Century skills that extend beyond academic work to support learning and success:
Self-regulated learning occurs in
classrooms where….
Adapted from: Perry, N. & Drummond, L. (2003). Becoming self-regulated readers and writers. The Reading Teacher, 56, 298-310.
(1) Students have lots of autonomy
Choices
Control over Challenge
Opportunities to collaborate with peers
Responsibility for evaluating their work
(2) Teachers provide instrumental support
Establish routines and consistent participation structures
Model & teach learning and problem solving strategies
Guide students’ thinking & performing Guide students’ choices Guide use of learning strategies Provide informative and corrective feedback Offer encouragement Engage students in discussions about learning
and self-regulated learning
(3) Teachers engage in non-threatening evaluation practices
Embedded in on-going activities Emphasize processes as well as products Focus on personal progress Encourage students to view errors as
opportunities to learn Involve students in setting criteria for evaluation
and self-evaluation
(4) Students experience complex tasks that provide opportunities to:
Have multiple goals
Focus on large chunks of meaning
Integrate content across curricular areas
Extend over long periods of time
Engage students in a wide range of cognitive and metacognitive processes
Allow for a wide range of processes and products
• Complex tasks often are manifested through collaborative projects and themes, inquiry and problem-based approaches to learning.o Studying the lifecycles of plants and animalso Developing a school-wide composting plan
from a study of ecology and conservationo http://www.teachtoutges.blogspot.com/
o Designing board games that reflect principles of probability and statistics
o Creating a school-community garden
SRL and Personalized Learning
How can you promote SRL?
Adapted from: Perry, N. & Drummond, L. (2003). Becoming self-regulated readers and writers. The Reading Teacher, 56, 298-310.
Start with a complex taskThat includes
• Multiple goals that are connected in a meaningful way
• Big ideas and large chunks of meaning
• Content from across units or curricular areas
• Extended work over time so students have opportunities to learn from experience and apply what they have learned
• A range of processes and products
Create opportunities for…
Choices such as:
The topic to be studies How learning will be demonstrated Where to work Who will help or who to collaborate with How time will be utilized or managed
Create opportunities for…
Control over challenge such as:
Choosing a familiar topic (new but interesting & important)
Drawing from strengths (balance writing, drawing, speaking etc.)
Choosing an appropriate workplace (who to sit with or a low distraction location, or room to spread out)
Choosing an appropriate partner, collaborator, or helper
Access to strategies to help when they get stuck
Create opportunities for…
Self-evaluating learning by:
Keeping a learning log or reflective journal Choosing work samples to submit Preparing for student-led conferences Asking good questions
• What have I learned• What would be a good topic for me• Where is a good place for me to work• Who would be a good person for me to work with
Rating processes (reading, writing, attention, helping) on a scale of…
Generating criteria for evaluating good learning
Consider how to support the development of SRL through…• Talking about learning, making thinking public
• Modelling strategies for SRL
• Building conditional knowledge about strategies (when, where, why)
• Using coaching rather than telling (What could you do differently? How will you know?)
• Helping students make good choices about learning & evaluation
Create opportunities for students to support each other by…• Sharing ideas (browse, borrow, build)
• Sharing and comparing strategies
• Sharing resources
• Collaborating on projects
• Seeking and giving assistance & feedback (suggestions)
• Helping students make good choices about learning & evaluation
• Acknowledging each other’s expertise
Implement non-threatening evaluation practices…• Embedded in on-going activities• Emphasize processes as well as products• Focus on personal progress, vs. social
comparisonso Excellence is defined on an individual basis
• Encourage students to view errors as opportunities for learning
• Cycles of activity so students can learn from errors and make it count
• Involve students in setting criteria for evaluation and self-evaluationo Make expectations explicit
Task: Building Volcanoes in Kindergarten Task Goals/Objectives
•Hone reading skills.•Learn to follow directions.•Practice collaboration and develop social skills.•Learn about the scientific method. •Generate hypotheses based on children’s prior knowledge/learning of volcanoes.•Describe what they observed when they carried out the volcano experiment.
Task: Building Volcanoes in Kindergarten (cont’d)
Description•The volcano task was part of a larger unit of study on nature that had been taking place in Teresa’s classroom for approximately four weeks prior to the observation.•Children were learning about features of different landscapes/terrains (e.g., deserts, mountains, volcanoes, jungles), insects, and animals in nature and the volcano task was one of the extensions of their learning on terrains.
Task: Building Volcanoes in Kindergarten (cont’d)
Choice and Control Over Challenge
Self-Evaluation
•“You can decide to work by yourself or with friends”.•Children could choose what they learned.•Children could choose how to present information they learned.
•What do you notice about [the behavior of] other children [when they are working together]?”
Task: Building Volcanoes in Kindergarten (cont’d)
Teacher Support Peer Support•How could you [approach the peer to] say how you feel?” •“See if you can solve the problem on your own”
•“We’re almost out of baking soda so we should leave some for people who haven’t had a chance [to try out the volcano experiment]”
Task: Building Volcanoes in Kindergarten (cont’d)
Non-Threatening Evaluations•Children summarized their work and learning in their learning journals. •Children could write and/or draw what they had learned; they also had the opportunity to photograph their work and describe their learning.
Task: Building Volcanoes in Kindergarten (cont’d)Communities of Learners
•Children were observed sharing their work and the results of their experience completing the volcano task with their peers.
BREAK
9:30-9:45
ACTIVITY 1: Planning for
SRL
9:45-10:30Work with 1-2 peers:
(a) within your school if you want to design an activity you can do together across grades or subjects, OR
(b) from another school (same grade or subject) if you want to design an activity you each try to implement in your own school.
Where do learners go wrong?
Supporting the emergence of SRL
Allyson Hadwin and Stephanie Helm
SRL unfolds over 4 phasesKey processes in SRL
Monitoring
Evaluating
Task Perceptions
Goals & Plans
Large Scale
Adaptation
Task Enactment
What you are supposed to do and why.
Self-set goals & standards, Planned approach
Task approachStrategies used or experimented with
Recognizing what is working and what isn’t. Making changes or adapting
Winne & Hadwin (1998)
5 Challenges students encounter
Lack of monitoring or inaccurate self-
evaluation
Incomplete or inaccurate Task
Perceptions
Goals-Plans without precision or commitment
Failure to adapt or turn challenges into opportunities
Weak strategy choices or no
strategy
Where we usually intervene
Planning
Why is planning so important?
Fuels
RegulationDirects effort &
strategic action
Foundation for Metacognitive monitoring
Complex tasks
• Prepare students for the real world• Can create more opportunities for challenge• Are more motivating
BUT ALSO• more difficult to understand• Understanding implicit purpose becomes very
important for strategically flexing task features and requirements
Task Understanding Challenges
Explicit Task
Information
Implicit Task
Information
Socio-contextual
TaskInformation
Information that is directly stated or provided
(Instructions, terms, Grading schemeAssignment details)
Information that is inferred(Task purpose,
Intended thinking or processing, relevant course concepts)
Epistemological & pedagogical intent(disciplinary beliefs & values
– bigger WHY)
Facilitating Task Understanding
HINT• Don’t do the task interpretation for
them
• Guide them through the process of co-constructing perceptions of those task features
Invite classroom discussion
IMPLICIT TASK FEATURES
• What am I asking you to do?• Why are we doing this?• What do I want you to learn through this?• Where might you find a good example of this?• What have we learned that is relevant?• How does this relate to what we have been doing?• What would make an A+ piece of work?• How might you start a task like this?
Invite small group discussion
Have students:
• Compare answers to the previous questions
• Compare plans for completing the work
• Peer read and discuss drafts of the work prior to submission
Assess task understanding
Formal class quizStephanie Helm’s task understanding quiz
2 minute informal feedback in classWhy am I asking you to do X? Why might an assignment like that
be important in this course (beyond just assessing how you are doing)
Formal task analysisCompare with peersEach group generate 2 questions for the teacher.
Grade 2 – Explicit taskStephanie Helm’s MA Thesis
Grade 2 – Implicit task
Stephanie Helm’s MA Thesis
Shift discussionAway from you giving the answers to
helping students construct the answers
o What do you think?o How could we find an answer to that question?o How are the concepts we have discussed in
class linked to this assignmento How does this assignment prepare you to do the
kind of work a (sociologist, biologist, psychologist) does?
Model your thinking about tasks• What am I being asked to do?• How you am I being asked to think or make
meaning?• Why am I being assigned a task like this in a course
like this?• What big ideas, resources, styles, genres, might be
important for this task?• What does this have to do with the rest of this
course?• Model how you find the answers:
Why are goals important?
• Good goals help you...o Deal with 1 little piece at
a timeo Know how to get startedo Know which strategies to
useo Generate feedback on
how well you’re doing o Get motivatedo Plan & manage your time
Goals become important when…
• Complex tasks by design• Choices are made available• Multiple ways to demonstrate mastery• Work extends over time (multiple
classes)• Student self-evaluation & peer
evaluation are promoted
The kinds of personalized learning tasks you were developing earlier
Goal setting for SRL
• Setting goals is very important BUT not all goals work equally as well
•TASC goals for SRL in academic tasks...o Focus on smaller (2-hr) Time blockso What thinking processes or Action(s) to
takeo To what degree, amount, or Standardo Specific about Concepts or content to be
learned
Developing goal setting skills• When students learn to set goals and
reflect on goal attainment and challenges on a weekly basis
Increased self efficacy for achieving goals
Increased goal attainment
Increased goal quality
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Danger of Weak goals
Experience Motivational Challenge
Set a behavior-focused goal
The goal is usually not specific or proximal
MOT CHLG: This past week i found it difficult to do as much
work at home as i should have. I didn't have any deadlines in the near future. I found it difficult to
keep myself motivated and focused on my course work for
more than about half an hour at a time.
In this past week i had a hard time motivating myself to get ahead in
my classes. I found that i was pushing things of and
procrastinating.
Lower efficacy for next goal
This next week i would like to finish catching up on my political sciences reading and also get a
head start on my computer science project. My goal for the end of next week is to be up to date on the readings and create
an outline for my computer science project
Maladaptive Motivation Cycle
Hierarchy of goal quality
Low• Study
Moderate• Read pages 10-40 on Wed night
High
• Goal: Explain 4 factors contributing to World War 2 using the correct terminology but explaining it in my own words (Wed 7-9pm)
• Plan – create a fishbone cause and effect diagram as I am reading the chapter
Weak strategies or strategy choices
To be strategic students need to know:
• when to use the strategy
• why the strategy works
• how to apply the strategy
• how to check if the strategy works
• Customize strategies IF……THEN…..ELSE
Reading tactics vs. strategies
https://sites.google.com/a/fessenden.k12.nd.us/hovland/homework/reading-strategieshttp://teachers.scholarschoice.ca/products/Reading-Strategies-B
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Study skills instruction tends to…
• Focus on how to do it
• Ignore the importance of task understanding
• Fail to address the connection between goals and strategy choice
• Rarely provide instruction about monitoring the effectiveness of strategies
• Rarely explain the reasons why the strategy works…..thinking and cognition
Challenge 4: Monitoring difficulties
• Do not monitor or check how they are doing along the way
• Innaccurately monitor
But to monitor progress, you have to:o Understand the work to be doneo Have clear goals/standards for the work
To improve monitoring
• Students need opportunities to monitor
• Feedback from teachers and peers
• Not just monitoring perfomance, also monitoring strategy use and learning processes
Example of self-monitoring form• Ally fill in examples
BREAK
11:15 to 11:30
Supporting SRL
11:30 to 12:15
Working together to
support SRL:
Becoming self-regulated teachers12:15 to 1:00
$$STILL TO REVISE BELOW
Helping Teachers Support SRL• Create a community of professionals• Allow teachers to tailor instruction
about SRL to the unique teaching and learning needs of their classrooms
• Encourage them to be innovators and problem solvers (Duffy, 1997)
• Allow them to learn from one another.
• Provide them with guided and sustained support (Borko & Putnam, 1998).
Action Research Groups
• Free write• Air time• Focused discussion• Work time• Reporting out
SRL Cohort at UBC• Community of professionals that includes
practicing and preservice teachers.• Student teachers are paired with mentors
who share our goals for promoting SRL.• Mentoring relationships are reciprocal.• Preservice teachers are in classrooms as
much as possible.• We articulate preservice teachers in-
school and on-campus experiences as much as possible.
Courses for SRL (ED-D101)
Learning Objective DescriptionLearning strategies Understand how strategies work; identify strategies that
meet individual and contextual learning needs; experiment with, evaluate, and generate new strategies in authentic university tasks.
Self-regulated learning Acquire knowledge of self-regulated learning and how it contributes to undergraduate learning; apply a model of self-regulated learning to overcome challenges by analyzing task requirements, setting goals, making plans, using strategies, monitoring and evaluating learning, and making small- and large-scale adaptations.
Knowledge of self Recognize individual strengths and weaknesses in learning; monitor and evaluate changes in learning knowledge, beliefs, and motivation.
Learning processes and mechanisms Understand how people remember information; understand how people process information.
Learning Objectives of the ED-D 101 Course
SRL in our SchoolsProfessional Development
Classroom Practices Learners and Parents Strategic planning
How could SRL fit with what we are currently doing? (Opportunities/fit in my school’s ProD plan) What are the potential ProD barriers or challenges for transforming learning in my (a) classroom and (b) school for SRL?What Do I need to have in place to promote/support SRL focused Pro-D in my school
How could SRL fit with classroom practices and activities currently happening in our classrooms? What are the potential challenges or barriers transforming learning in my (a) classroom and (b) school for SRL?What Do I need to have in place to promote/support SRL focused classroom practices in my school
How can SRL learners and parents be supported in SRL initiatives What are the potential challenges or barriers transforming learning ?What Do I need to have in place to support learners and parents to make this transition to SRL
How does SRL fit with my schools strategic plan What are the potential challenges for transforming my school ‘s strategic plan with respect to SRL practices ?What Do I need to have in place for our strategic plan to mesh with SRL transformation?