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- Learning should be socio-constructed, and learners should be self-regulated
- For this to happen, students need:
- A growth mindset (including risk taking)
- Understand learning is unique
- Strong reflective practices
- Plethora of strategies for learning and regulation that can be applied to numerous learning scenarios
- Awareness of how emotions affect us
- Intrinsic motivation to learn
- For students to develop these conceptual understandings and skills, teachers need to:
- Actively teach about the learning process (growth mindset, learning is unique and everyone brings something different to the table)
- Teach about stress reduction and the brain
- Continually teach strategies to:
- Interpret tasks
- Set goals
- Plan
- Enact strategies (self-manage, time-manage, information manage, materials manage)
- Recognize strengths and challenges
- Monitor progress
- Adjust during task (adapting approaches)
- Self-evaluate and reflect
- Promote intrinsic motivation through:
- Student interest
- Connect to experiences and prior knowledge
- Providing choice/voice, letting students be part of the process
- Meaningful choices that allow for differentiation (personalization and blended learning)
- Transparency (clear outline of where the class is going and why, learning objectives and expectations)
- Personal goal setting
- Integrated (big ideas and good questions [critical thinking])
- Provide opportunities to work with many different people (collaborate = participation and accountability) → link to 21st century learning
- Work with other teachers (teacher inquiry and collaboration)
- Assess formatively and allow for students to improve
- Scaffold, ensure material matches skill and maturity level, concept development sequence
- Ways this can be done:
- Project/Problem based learning (real world applicable, applying learning to new situations and challenges by generating understandings that are flexible and long lasting)
- Maker Education
- Use IB Learner checklist to ensure holistic learning
- Blogging/journals
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