We all know the importance of the growth mindset, but how much time do we spend paying attention to cultivating this within the classroom? How confident do we feel to actively build the necessary skills and dispositions within students to empower them as lifelong learners? Drawing on the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and the work of Dr Shyam Barr (Educate to Self-Regulate, Amba Press, 2024), this workshop offers a range of strategies to build self-management approaches to learning for secondary students. We will explore how we can sustaining effort and persistence, as well as supporting student emotional capacity through the approach of self-regulated learning. This approach is designed to build capacity within students to understand their own thinking, motivations, emotions and behaviours in the context of learning, and to monitor and change these in response to a problem or towards a desired goal.
