Jan. 29, 2025

Teaching for Transfer: What is self regulation and why does it matter in our literacy classroom?

Teaching for Transfer: What is self regulation and why does it matter in our literacy classroom?

In this episode:

Listen in as we talk about what the research says about self-regulation, why it matters and how it impacts students in your classroom.

We talk about:

 What self-regulation is, what the research says about it and how you can impact it so that you can increase student learning in your classroom.

Quotables: 

- Self-regulation as the capacity to understand and direct one’s own learning. 

-Self-regulation skills can and should be explicitly taught and frequently reviewed in order to help students be successful.

-Awareness of the levels of self-regulation should impact our instruction.

Links to resources mentioned in the podcast:

Schunk, D. H., & Zimmerman, B. J. (2007). Influencing     children’s self-efficacy and self-regulation of reading and writing through modeling. Reading and Writing Quarterly, 23, 7-25.Link to Article

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