The Ultimate Guide to Self-Regulation in the Classroom

This practical guide from bestselling education author Sue Cowley breaks down what self-regulation is, how it develops and and how you can support your learners to build and improve it. The Ultimate Guide to Self-Regulation explains what self-regulation is and demonstrates how it relates to challenging learner behaviour, focus and attention, resilience and impulse control. Sue Cowley explains how it shows up in the everyday classroom, including how it relates to post-pandemic behavioural challenges, and offers easy-to-implement solutions to support learners of all ages. The book is broken down into two sections - the theory behind self-regulation, and how it develops in the classroom - and readers can dip in and out to find strategies as and when they need them.Written in Sue''s much-loved realistic, honest and practical style, The Ultimate Guide to Self-Regulation will help teachers, practitioners and support staff to improve outcomes for every learner.>

Auteur

Sue Cowley is a bestselling education author and an internationally renowned presenter and teacher trainer. She has experience teaching in early years, primary and secondary settings and her bestselling books including Getting Your Class to Behave and How to Survive Your First Year in Teaching are longstanding teacher favourites. She currently helps to run her local preschool and does training and consultancy work for schools and organisations across the world.

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Part One - An Introduction to Self-Regulation Chapter One: The Importance of Self-Regulation and Metacognition Chapter Two: Self-Regulation: What It Is and How It Develops Chapter Three: Behaviour as Communication: From Co-Regulation to Self-Regulation Part Two - Supporting the Development of Self-Regulation in the Classroom Chapter Four: Managing My Own Behaviours Chapter Five: Developing Impulse Control and Delayed Gratification Chapter Six: Building Focus and Attentional Control Chapter Seven: Developing Emotional Self-Regulation Chapter Eight: Supporting the Development of Empathy Chapter Nine: Goal Setting, Challenge and the Role of Failure Part Three - The Role of the Adult Chapter Ten: Building Agency and a 'Can Do' Attitude Chapter Eleven: Don't Be a Helicopter Chapter Twelve: Sustained Shared Thinking: Narrating the Thinking