Teaching Self-Regulation

"Self-regulation is an important skill for student success both inside and outside of the classroom. It empowers students to become lifelong learners and grow healthy self-care behaviors. In Teaching Self-Regulation: Seventy-Five Instructional Activities to Foster Independent, Proactive Students, Grades 6-12, authors Amy S. Gaumer Erickson and Patricia M. Noonan support teachers in developing students' self-regulation skills by creating authentic learning opportunities and delivering effective feedback. The authors outline four components for successful self-regulation-(1) plan, (2) monitor, (3) adjust, and (4) reflect-and provide seventy-five instructional activities to teach self-regulation skills to students. By reading Teaching Self-Regulation, secondary educators will receive practical tools and strategies to address the social-emotional needs of every student"--