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Scaffolding Students’ Success as Independent Learners: Developing Instructional Materials Using Self-Regulated Learning Principles
Gain practical skills to scaffold students’ development as independent learners using principles from self-regulated learning. This framework is goal-directed, and emphasizes the active role students can take in guiding their learning. Students’ implementation of these skills has been linked to many adaptive and positive academic outcomes. In this workshop, participants will explore practical methods to embed the teaching of self-regulated learning skills into their regular instruction, and learn how to feel more confident in their ability to design instructional materials that can help students take the initiative to plan, direct, and reflect on their own learning processes. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Articulate the value of self-regulated learning processes (i.e., planning, monitoring/control, and reflection) in promoting student success
- Design instructional materials to support students in developing disciplinary-based self-regulated learning skills
Instructors
August Masonheimer, Purdue University
Erin Mercurio, The Ohio State University
Workshop Schedule
This two-part online workshop meets in Zoom on Monday, October 20th at 7-9pm Gulf / 11am-1pm Eastern / 10am-12pm Central / 8-10am Pacific/Arizona and Monday, November 3rd at 8-10pm Gulf / 11am-1pm Eastern / 10am-12pm Central / 9-11am Arizona / 8-10am Pacific.
Audience
This workshop is designed for participants with teaching experience who want to develop practical skills and instructional materials that help students reflect on their own learning processes.
Registration and Enrollment
Cap: 40. Registration opens on Monday, October 6th at 10am CT and closes once capacity is reached. Registration will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis and registrants from CIRTL member institutions or alumni of CIRTL member institutions will receive priority. Once registration closes, all registrants will be notified of their enrollment status.
Accessibility
If you have access needs, please let us know what they are. Contact Zoe Zuleger (zmzuleger@wisc.edu) who is supporting this workshop, to let us know how we can help you have a successful experience. In addition to meeting individualized needs, we will also take measures throughout the workshop to support accessibility for all our students:
- Sending pre-session reminders with upcoming assignments to all students
- Sharing materials for synchronous sessions with students (slides, activity instructions, etc.)
- Enabling live captioning in synchronous sessions
- Incorporating multiple modes of interaction into synchronous sessions
About CIRTL Programming
CIRTL Network programming is designed to develop future faculty committed to implementing and advancing evidence-based teaching practices to create undergraduate educational experiences that are accessible to all learners. Participants can explore our programming in any order, and to whatever extent supports your own teaching development needs and interests. To help participants understand what they can expect across all our programming, all CIRTL programming aligns with four broad learning goals; within those goals, programming might provide participants with an introductory, intermediate, or advanced learning experience.
This course supports the following CIRTL learning goals at an introductory level:
- Goal 1: Develop evidence-based teaching knowledge. See more Goal 1 programming.
- Goal 3: Cultivate teaching skills through reflective improvement. See more Goal 3 programming.

