Notes+for+SRL+Team+members

Start up PLCs - early release twice a month (required for all teachers) - to build dialogue about SRL in the classrooms (as well as pursue Give em 5 and SRL) How do we make SRL personally relevant to individual teachers and their programs? What kind of teachers do we want to be? Not to be afraid to do something different to excel. Love learning and don't fear failure. How do we handle apathy? Where does that come from? No hope? Help kids expand the possibilities (strategies/attributions) they are aware of. To what do you attribute failure/success? Use the BB analogy or Ben Franklin story. This ties in with Give em 5: use the strategies language and reflection/attribution thinking. Character ed? Improved motivation and success will support improved character. Distribute information during the Linda Loder training that prepares teachers for Dr. Cleary's presentation Accountability? Be flexible Create an analysis sheet for teachers and students for daily use to document progress How do we make this effort sustainable? What is the goal for content areas? "language of strategies"
 * Staff Development in use of SRL**

=**Key elements**= What does "regulation" look like? It is feedback that kids use to reach their goals. Can be verbal/written feedback from teachers/others as well as students self-reflection and discover for themselves. Kids are "novice" regulators - they must have external feedback from teachers/parents at first; eventually to independence. task strategies (for solving math problems, or writing essays, etc.) regulation strategies (help seeking, managing the environment, etc.) that affect learning What key strategies do you want your students to internalize? (We need to share as a staff and adopt school-wide strategies if there is consensus) Why are you not doing well? Help kids look at the strategies they are using both to demonstrate the skill and evaluate the process. Are you fixating on uncontrollable attributions? Be explicit in your own mind how you self-regulate.
 * 1) 1 view learning as a cycle (not attributes/characteristics) - view kids in terms of the process their going through
 * 1) 2 Give multiple opportunities to go through this process. Needs to be daily - regular review of a chart or other data; how can students get this feedback naturally and easily? What is the infrastructure?
 * 2) 3 Build in strategy instruction. How are you as a teacher helping kids use strategies to reach goals?
 * 1) 4 There should be NO DIFFERENCE between what I expect from students and what I do myself.

Do teachers need to journal? To prepare for January Teen conference? To report to each other in PLCs? This is an effortful process! But it can become a habit. To present to staff: show how we went through the process (3 stages) and create a case scenario of how we learned this? How did it help? Be gentle. Check in with yourself - who do we go to with challenges or obstacles in between meetings? Database Decision Making and gathering data Grades Attendance SRSI Homework completion Our team needs to be ready with some deadlines for next year. The SRL team needs to continue to meet to get support as we take on this additional responsibility.