Promoting Student Agency and Cognitive Engagement in the Classroom.
Teaching How to Learn is a research-based program that investigates how teachers can best help students develop the capabilities of independent and self-regulated learners.
Professional Learning Resources
We have developed video-based professional learning resources suitable for both practising teachers and teacher education students. One set of these resources focuses on the design of instruction that promotes student cognitive engagement, while another describes the capabilities self-regulated learners and provides information to teachers about how to promote self-regulated learning (SRL) in the classroom. For the most powerful impact on teacher practice, both sets of resources are recommended. The former help to set up the classroom conditions in which SRL capabilities can flourish, and the latter explain in detail how teachers can promote those capabilities to strengthen their students’ SRL toolkits, and thus help them to become successful lifelong learners.
Research & Research Team
The research team investigates teachers’ knowledge, beliefs and practices related to the promotion of student independent and self-regulated learning (SRL). It also develops and evaluates interventions that support teachers to design tasks that help improve student learning. The results of this research have been used to design the professional learning materials for in-service and pre-service teachers available on this site.
The research is supported by a Discovery Grant from the Australian Research Council (DP190102366) Teaching How to Learn: Promoting Self-Regulated Learning in STEM Classes. It involves a collaboration between Flinders University, The University of Melbourne, Arizona State University (USA), and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (Germany).
