By synthesising disciplinary and strategic knowledge, students can learn self-management processes that highly specific and contextualised. There appear to be three broad stages in the process of fostering self-regulated learners. Convince students of the importance of becoming a self-regulating, independent learner. Guide students, through cognitive coaching, in self regulatory behaviours. Support independent learning by providing opportunities for students to control their own learning.
Thinking processes are overt.
Learners are actively engaged. The instructor models successful learning strategies. The transition from modelling by the expert to activation by learners is made explicit. Strategies are embedded in domain-specific instruction. Learners observe, integrate and self monitor as they learn.