Literature Review

Literature Review

For the past 3 weeks I have been spending time reading lots of articles around the topics of student self-management, motivation, engagement and student voice.

A summary kind of statement from John Hattie's 'What works in best in education" says 

            'teaching must be visible to the student

                 and learning must be visible to the teacher"

There is a lot of technology that helps make student learning more visible such as Padlet and student presentation tools. But for students to make presentations and work collaboratively they need good self-management skills. Self-regulation increases students capacity to plan, implement and evaluate their learning.

So my research question is based around the key competency of 'managing self' 

         How can the competency of 'managing self' be enhanced in the secondary classroom? 

 I wonder if self-management is largely a behavioural modification or does it have more to do with intrinsic qualities like willpower and feelings of competence? How much can we teach self-management?