Guide on the Side

"Self-regulated learning serves as a powerful catalyst in augmenting and reinforcing students' academic experiences and achievements. In Guide on the Side: Sequencing Instruction for Self-Regulated Learners, Julia A. Simms introduces this integral empowering concept and explains how students' mental processes help them regulate, expand upon, and seek out greater knowledge as they accomplish more and more on their respective learning journeys. Explaining the high-arching concepts of cognition and metacognition in readily accessible terms, Simms offers readers easy, comprehensive coverage of the brain's natural ability to help students sort through knowledge they need to learn, commit that knowledge to memory, and build connections between old and new knowledge to continue probing gaps in understanding. With accumulated research and numerous effective strategies to incorporate at each stage of the self-regulated learning process, readers of Guide on the Side will empower students in recognizing and mastering their own innate ability to explore, navigate, and conquer both mandated and self-selected learning goals and objectives"-- Provided by publisher.