What Path Can We Follow to Facilitate a Child's Self-Regulation?

               

How can we move from understanding the development of self-regulation to facilitating the development of self-management and other self-direction skills? 

From the May 29 2018 Posting
With a focus on the Learning aspect of Language, Literacy, and Learning, I am going to begin a series of posts on children’s ability, with our support, to become confident and successful learners.  Becoming a learner begins in infancy.  So these early posts will focus on Birth to 5. Later posts will focus on learning in K-3.  There are a number of ways we can describe the learning to learn process, for example: self-regulation, executive function, metacognition.  Here is a place to begin with a focus on self-regulation.

Here’s one pathway to follow:

Begin with a Tentative Definition

Understand Normal Development of Cognitive/Social/Emotional Learning

Exploring Models of Self-Regulation (Self-Direction, Self-Management...)

Translating the most promising model into Context-Based Instruction

                *Begin with a Plan to Understand and Collaborate with Individual Children

    *Choose Instructional Principles

    *Sequence Goals and Objectives

                *Engage in Diagnostic Teaching 

                *Monitor Progress

    *Work toward Generalization

    *Apply to A Domain and then Across Domains

Continue to Grow By Following the Literature (Reference List)