Strategies and Tools for Self-Regulation in the Classroom: Boost Student Focus and Meet Learning Goals - Paperback

by Richard M. Cash (Author)

Teach students essential skills like time management, organization, and goal setting

Strategies and Tools for Self-Regulation in the Classroom provides resources to support students in developing self-regulation and executive-function skills they need to succeed in and beyond the classroom. This book follows the four phases of Engaging in Learning, providing concrete strategies and classroom activities to help students build confidence, set and manage goals, monitor progress, and reflect on their learning. Skills covered include note taking, active listening, taking breaks, balanced technology use, positive thinking, using a study buddy, staying healthy, and many more.

You can easily incorporate teaching the strategies and activities into daily routines, making it easy to boost student achievement in small doses. Pick and choose the skills and activities that are most helpful for your students and most effective in your schedule.

• Discover strategies to increase student self-regulation and academic success
• Implement brief lessons that fit perfectly into morning meeting, advisory, or homeroom schedules
• Learn how to effectively teach and continually reinforce good study habits
• Improve your teaching with student-facing activities, reflection questions, and informative passages

Written by Dr. Richard M. Cash, a recognized leader in gifted education, this book is perfect as a companion to Self-Regulation in the Classroom or as a standalone resource. Self-regulation is the key to effective learning. This book equips educators with the tools to guide students toward better outcomes and a more fulfilling learning experience.

Author Biography

Dr. Richard M. Cash is an award-winning author and educator who has worked in the field of education for over thirty years.

His range of experience includes teaching, curriculum coordination, and program administration. Currently, he is an internationally recognized education consultant. His consulting work has taken him throughout the United States, as well as into Canada, the Czech Republic, China, England, Indonesia, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Oman, Poland, Qatar, Spain, South Korea, and Turkey.

Richard earned his doctorate in educational leadership and a master's degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Along with his bachelor's degree in education from the University of Minnesota, Richard holds a bachelor's degree in theater from the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. For over ten years, he codirected a children's theater company in Minnesota and coauthored four award-winning children's plays.

He was the recipient of the National Association for Gifted Children's Early Leader Award (2011), recognizing his leadership in programming for gifted children. Richard was also named the Friend of the Gifted, 2016" by Minnesota Educators of the Gifted and Talented. His areas of expertise are educational programming, rigorous and challenging curriculum design, differentiated instruction, 21st-century skills, brain-compatible classrooms, gifted and talented education, and self-regulated learning.

Dr. Cash is the author of Advancing Differentiation: Thinking and Learning for the 21st Century (2011/2017), a finalist for the Association for Educational Publishers Distinguished Achievement Award and winner of the The Legacy Book(R) Award; Self-Regulation in the Classroom: Helping Students Learn How to Learn (2016); and coauthor of (with Diane Heacox) Differentiation for Gifted Learners: Going Beyond the Basics (2014/2020), winner of The Legacy Book(R) Award.