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Sequencing Instruction for Self-Regulated Learners
Through research-backed strategies and practical applications, author Julia A. Simms explores self-regulated learning, instructional sequences, and brain-based learning. She examines the development of cognitive and metacognitive skills, working memory, and effective explicit instruction, offering step-by-step guidance for teachers to facilitate student learning. By supporting students through guided practice and monitoring, educators can help build declarative and procedural knowledge, enhance self-efficacy, and bridge learning gaps.
Benefits
- Enhance student learning outcomes through development of self-aware learning practices
- Understand how knowledge, memory, and metacognition work to inspire further learning
- Incorporate strategies that develop students’ mental capacities as independent learners
- Employ action research processes to align goals with strategies that ensure successful outcomes
- Make students active agents in lifelong learning, setting goals with curious mindset
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Self-Regulated Learning
Chapter 2: Knowledge
Chapter 3: Cognition
Chapter 4: Metacognition
Chapter 5: Motivation
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Chapter 2: Knowledge
- Figure 2.2: Sample Learning Progression for Declarative Knowledge—Genres and Text Types
- Figure 2.3: Sample Learning Progression for Procedural Knowledge—Solving Systems of Linear Equations Using Substitution
- Figure 2.4: Sample Learning Progression for Articulating a Knowledge Item as a Learning Progression
Chapter 3: Cognition
Chapter 4: Metacognition
- Figure 4.1: Evaluating Cues Questionnaire
- Figure 4.2: Sample Learning Progression for Procedural Knowledge—Inhibitory Control
Chapter 5: Motivation
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Books
- Marzano, R. J., & Abbott, S. D. (2022). Teaching in a competency-based elementary school: The Marzano Academies model. Marzano Resources.
- Marzano, R. J., & Heflebower, T. (2012). Teaching & assessing 21st century skills. Marzano Resources.
- Marzano, R. J., & Kosena, B. J. (2022). Leading a competency-based elementary school: The Marzano Academies model. Marzano Resources.
- Marzano, R. J., Norford, J. S., Finn, M., & Finn, D., III. (2017). A handbook for personalized competency-based education. Marzano Resources.
- Simms, J. A. (2024). The Marzano synthesis: A collected guide to what works in K–12 education. Marzano Resources.
- Simms, J. A. (2025). Where learning happens: Leveraging working memory & attention in the classroom. Marzano Resources.
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Appendix