Developing Self-Regulated Learners (Psychology in the Classroom)
by Deborah Lynne Butler, Nancy Ellen Perry, Leyton Schnellert
Category: Academic achievement

Helping you to help your students -- a guidebook to improving student attention and performance in the classroom. Across North America, self-regulation is being associated with the kinds of "21st century learning skills" that schools need to foster , empowering learners to succeed from primary grades through the adult years. While interest in self-regulation and self-regulated learning (SRL) is intensifying among researchers, policy-makers and educators, few resources are available to professionals interested in enhancing their practice in this area. Developing Self-regulating Learners is a guidebook to helps in-service candidates and teachers guide students to improved attention spans and more positive behaviour, assisting in connecting research on self-regulation and learning in classrooms and effectively combining theoretical content with practical classroom applications and strategies.