Sabtu, 10 Desember 2011 Building Self-Regulated Learning Skills Diposting oleh an.pane di 18.18

As usual, the activity like 2-stray-2-stay is interesting for me. It is because of the opportunities to share knowledge of various topics with my friends. In the previous meeting of MMSEL class, I came to the booth where self-regulated learner is discussed. I was attracted by this topic because I could see many points that also happened in my learning experience.

Self-regulated learning involves thoughts, feelings, and actions that are controlled to create a maximal outcome (Snowman, McCown, & Biehler, 2009). From the explanation I got in the booth, learners can be said as having self-regulated learning skills when they can plan, control, and monitor the time and their effort to do tasks. I totally agree with my friend’s explanation. I have experienced how it was disastrous when I could not control my schedule in doing tasks, especially in arranging the time. It made the result unsatisfying too. On the other hand, by applying self-regulated learning, I learn to be more responsible to my tasks. That responsibility leads me to motivate myself to give my best effort to get good results.


I also got the information from the presentation that learners’ self-regulated learning skills can get increase as the learners get older. Snowman, McCown, & Biehler (et al.) find that in spite of the fact that age can affect learners’ self- regulated learning skills, the consistency of using those skills may not always happen to every learner. They said that learners may face difficulties in measuring the appropriate strategies they can use in accomplishing different tasks. That is why as the teacher candidate, I think I should learn how to motivate my students in the future to be self-regulated learners. I should help them to arrange their schedule in studying and to find the best strategies in doing tasks. I can reflect from my experience too. Some of the examples are how to arrange the time in studying continuously and to make priority in doing tasks by looking at the submission deadline and the types of the task. For the strategies, I can teach them how to make mind-map, effective summary or notes, and any other tactics.

Another important thing is I should also consider about my students’ interest and their learning styles. Knowing those factors is very helpful to motivate them to be self-regulated learners. Besides always trying to help my students build those skills, I should also keep myself as a self-regulated learner. It is because teacher is a learner and self-regulated learning skills are needed in doing teacher’s duties too.



Reference:
Snowman, J., McCown, R., & Biehler, R. (2009). Psychology Applied to Teaching. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
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