Teachers mindfully set up systems that consistently empower students to direct and manage their own learning and emotions through self-reflection, self-assessment, goal-setting, progress monitoring, and self-advocacy. To do this, a teacher believes that self-reflection and regulation are supportive of students' academic development and overall well-being and that teaching these skills is an important component of their role. (Adapted from New Teacher Center Indicator Rubric)
RANDA Connections: IC, IIC, IIIB
Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind: Various methods of reflection that support students in developing their own habits of self-reflection.
Goal-Setting Practices that Support a Learning Culture: The Why and How of Goal-Setting.
Universal Design for Learning: a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.
Keeping SEL Developmental: This article by CASEL discusses the importance of a developmental lens for fostering and assessing SEL competencies.
In order to develop a teacher's capacity to support students to Self-Reflect and Self-Regulate, the coach will use the continuum above, as well as available data sources, to facilitate reflection and identify next steps. One approach may be to turn the continuum bullet points into questions.
The following resources align with the continuum:
Helping Students Use Strategies to Direct and Manage Their Learning
How to Give Students More Control of Their Education (TeachThought)
Teaching Students to be Metacognitive About Their Emotions
Five Steps to Teach Emotional Self-Regulation (The Responsive Counselor)
Emotional Regulation: Skills, Exercises, and Strategies (Better Up)
Emotional Regulation Activities for Tweens and Teens (Edutopia)
Teaching Students to be Metacognitive About Their Self-Reflection, Self-Assessment, Goal-Setting, Progress Monitoring, and Self-Advocacy
See also Self-Reflect and Self-Regulate Checklist (Developed by APS Coaching Cadre, 2021-22)