LEARNING TO BE A BETTER STUDENT
LEARNING TO BE A BETTER STUDENT
Self-Regulation
Learning ● Motivation is the willingness to act, while
● relatively permanent change in a person's self-regulation involves intentional strategies to
knowledge or behavior as a result of experience. achieve goals.
● It involves acquiring changes in the present 2. Steps to Self-Regulated Learning:
knowledge, skills, habits, behaviors, or ● Set goals and exert consistent effort.
tendencies through experience, practice, or ● Reflect and correct mistakes through a cyclical
formal education process.
Characteristics of learning: ● Practice patience, perseverance, and maintain a
● Purposeful - Learning is goal-driven and requires positive mindset.
motivation and cognitive engagement. Key Takeaway:
● Based on Experience - Real understanding comes Becoming a better student requires purposeful learning,
from applying concepts in real-life situations. self-reflection, and self-regulation. Develop metacognitive
● Multifaceted - Learning includes intellectual, strategies and consistently engage in the cyclical process of
physical, social, emotional, and spiritual growth. self-improvement to succeed.
● Active Process - Learning builds on prior
knowledge, requiring interaction with
experiences and ideas.
Metacognition
● commonly defined as "thinking about thinking"
● awareness of the scope and limitations of your
current knowledge and skills
● enables the person to adapt their existing
knowledge and skills to approach a learning task,
seeking for the optimum result of the learning
experience
Metacognitive Knowledge
what you know about how you think
● personal variable: your evaluation of your
strengths and weaknesses in learning
● task variable: what you know or what you think
about the nature of the task, as well as what
strategies the task requires
● strategy variable: refers to what strategies or
skills you already have in dealing with certain
tasks
Metacognitive Regulation
● how you adjust your thinking processes to help
you learn better
Metacognitive Strategies
1. Ask questions
2. Foster self-reflection
3. Engage in self-questioning
4. Perform autonomous learning
5. Seek help from possible mentors
6. Solve problems with a team
7. Think aloud
8. Self-explanation
9. Forgive self when making mistakes
10. Note taking
11. Reflective writing
Becoming a Self-Regulated Learner
● The ability to manage your own learning through
emotional, cognitive, and behavioral regulation.