Designing Activities to Foster Self-Regulated Learning

This is a my literacy assignment I had done for LED 350. I am putting this up because I believe this is a perfect example of complex activity.

[Chapter 7 - SRL]

Why focus on activities?

• It is through activities that students construct knowledge, skills, strategies, values, and beliefs that are essential to active learning and SRL.

• It is within activities that students learn how to engage in deliberate, reflective cycles of strategic action, as well as how to self-regulate all aspects of their performance.

Activities that are complex by design

Complex activities extend over time and include enough depth and variety to enable students to engage in rich forms of SRL

• Complex activities have multiple instructional goals

• Complex activities focus on large chunks of meaning.

• Complex activities add depth by integrating content across subject areas

• Complex activities extend over time.

• Complex activities require students to make choices.

• Complex activities engage students in a variety of cognitive and meta-cognitive processes.

• Complex activities include both individual and social forms of learning

• Complex activities allow students to demonstrate learning in a variety of ways.

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• Butler, D. L., Schnellert, L., & Perry, N. E. (2016). Developing Self-Regulating Learners. Don Mills, ON: Pearson. [Chapter 7]

• Schnellert, L., Widdess, N., & Watson, L. (2015). It’s all about thinking: Creating pathways for all learners in middle years. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Portage & Main Press. [Chapter 8]