Self-Management

Key Questions: How can students demonstrate organization skills? How can students manage their own state of mind? How can students be reflective?

Skills Clusters: Organization, Affective Skills, Reflection

Organization

Check In, Check Out

Goal: Students set goals for a lesson
Task: Students access an on-screen, shared Google Spreadsheet at the beginning and end of the class.
Reflection: Identify your goal for today. Describe what you accomplished.
Variation:

Cornell Notes

Goal: Organize class notes and new information
Task: Students use a Cornell notes format to take notes on class information
Reflection: Students formulate questions about the content and practice writing summaries of their notes.
Variation: Use the notes section for drawings, bullet point lists, T-charts, diagrams, etc.

Set Priorities
Review and Revise Class Notes
Making a To-Do list and To-Do List Apps to Try Out
The 80/20 Method (modify for MS/HS)
Assignment Calendar (refer to Managebac in class)
Practice with Different Calendar Types (PDF)
Time Awareness
Use online timers: Example 1, Example 2, Example 3: Do a Google search for “timer”, Example 4
Assigning “Study-Buddies”
Rate the Assignment
Visual AND oral prompts for time awareness
Have Tos and Want Tos and/or Time Budget
Video Interview with a Professional (how life skills can help one achieve life goals)
Backwards Planning (PDF)

Affective

I Can, I Can't

Goal: Practice managing self-talk
Task: Students list 20 things they can do and 20 things they can't do
Reflection: How do you feel about yourself?
Variation: Tie it to your content via three categories - What do I know about, think about, wonder

Activities for Metacognition (DePaul University)

Fish Bowl
What? So What? Now What?
Letters to Future Students (or Self)

Metacognitive Activities (PDF) (Arcadia University)

Mind Mapping
Transfer Journal
Think-Pair-Share

Metacognitive Techniques (University of Oregon)

Personal Goals Statement
Metacognitive Activities Inventory
Learning Logs

A Practical Guide: Approaches to Learning

Three Types of Learning Skills
Sensory Style
Environmental Variables Questionnaire
Memory Techniques for Different Learning Styles

Metacognition (Vanderbilt University)

Pre-Assessments
The Muddiest Point
Retrospective Post-Assessments

Failure Checklist (Google Doc): This worksheet allows students to work from describing a failure to thinking about the new possibilities this opportunity presents.

TedTalks: Failure (best for older students)

Reflection

RESOURCE

Chapter 12. "Learning Through Reflection" from Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind Edited by Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick

http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/108008/chapters/Learning-Through-Reflection.aspx

Learning Logs: Use these in your class to help students to keep track of what they are learning. Create target questions to help students find points of confusion and opportunities for growth in their learning. See example prompts here and access a template here.