Every teacher always wants what is best for their students. Once the end of the year starts to roll around, the concept of standardized testing approaches. It can be stressful for teachers to figure out what they can do for their students when it comes to helping them prepare, especially with those who are struggling in writing. This post will help teachers with how they can prepare their struggling writers for on-level testing.
The Self-Regulated Strategy Development stages is a form to help prepare struggling writers to become back on track and feel confident with themselves. This process is a six step process to help improve students academic skills, along with teaching students specific academic strategies and self-regulated skills.
The first stage is building your students background knowledge. In this stage, the student and the teacher will discuss any background knowledge the student may have. The teacher should try to find ways to help relate the subject to the student for them to better acquire and understand the material they are learning.
In stage two, discuss with your students what their goals are for the objective they are about to learn. Here, you should talk with your students to see what they know so far and what else they would like or need to know.
Stage three includes the modeling stage. As a teacher, we should model for our students what our expectations are and what the instructions are. The students will then take what they have watched from the teacher and personalize their own self regulations and instructions.
During stage four, the students are expected to memorize what was just modeled for them. They should understand the steps given to them along with use the mnemonic strategy. The mnemonic strategy is the study of improving memory. From here, students will take what they learned in stage three and try to come up with different methods of self regulation and instruction.
In the next stage, stage five, as teachers we need to support our students. We should watch and observe our students as they practice their self regulated instructions. Teachers should look over students work to make sure they are applying the correct information taught. If not, this is where you go back a few stages to make sure everything is understood. If accommodations are needed for the students, this is the stage where those would be applied.
In the final stage, the student applies all knowledge they just took and apply it individually. This final stage is where you see within their writing all of the work and stages built up. Students and teacher will go over their work together to evaluate writings to ensure proper learning. This will also take a look at the strategies effectiveness and performance.
These phases are a process, although when it comes to our students, we will do anything for them. The Self-Regulation Strategy Development will help prepare students for what they need to understand, along with regain the confidence and skills in those who may be struggling.
Helsel, L., & Greenberg, D. (2007). Helping struggling writers succeed: A self-regulated strategy instruction program. The Reading Teacher, 60(8), 752–760. https://doi.org/10.1598/rt.60.8.5
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