Supporting Self-Regulated Learning With Exceptional Children Summary

The article “Supporting self-regulated learning with exceptional children” talks about how the self-regulated learning model can help children with exceptional education needs be more successful in school. Favorable investigations of children’s use of self-regulation methods, like goal-setting, self-reinforcement, self-recording, and self-instruction, in task completion have encouraged educational researchers and activists to consider the use of self-regulation by exceptional students during academic learning. Self-regulation is more than just an academic performance skill more than that, it is the self-directive process by which learners transform their mental abilities into academic skills. Students with Exceptional education needs regularly

The article lists the ABCs of self-regulated learning, it says that attitudes, beliefs, cognitive strategies, domain knowledge, external support, and flexibility are essential self-regulated learning to be effective. If the student’s attitudes about learning are not good then they will not grasp anything because they are not being positive about learning. Being positive helps the student to be confident and enthusiastic about learning, this will help them not give up when faced with a difficult task. This is often a big problem for students with exceptional education needs they tend to have a negative outlook on education. Helping and encouraging students so they can have more positive attitude on learning is really important so they can be successful in school. For this teachers need to model a positive attitude in the classroom, show enthusiasm about the content they are teaching. They should always have a “can do” attitude. Research has shown that children have more positive attitude towards learning when they have choices and opportunities to do work that is meaningful to