Self-Regulated Learning and tenmarks

Steppen into Trig is back up and running!  If you are currently in one of my Trig/Precalc. classes you are expected to join the blog (follow my posts).  In the past, I have updated it once each weekend so your responsibility is to mainly check in once each Sunday night to see what is up and coming for the week.  However, we may go further if we see opportunities for student/teacher or better yet student/student communication (about what we are learning in our class!)

You have done and seen a lot of www.tenmarks.com tracks and filled out your own tracking sheets this year.  This quality site allows to you to practice quality problems that can't really be created on a worksheet or copied from a textbook.  That is one great benefit, but I also want you to have and take more ownership in tracking what you know and need to know.   Tenmarks does a nice job of challenging you and giving you that "one more chance" to make corrections.  Those scores provide a consistent way for you to track where you are, and make decisions about what to do next.

The extra work I have put into familiarizing myself with tenmarks and giving your tracking sheets is to add one more tool to your toolbox to help you become a self-regulated learner.  Self-regulated learners take ownership in process of learning.

Self-Regulated Learners

·         Engage in self-observation (monitoring one’s activities), self-judgment (evaluation of one’s performance), and self-reactions (reactions to performance outcomes)

·         Identify academic strengths and weaknesses

·         Attribute their academic successes or failures to factors within their control (e.g. effort expended on a task, effective use of strategies)

  

     Next Steps:  In the upcoming Sunday night post I will talk about self-regulation and how it relates to the rubrics we have been using in class and give a good check-in/preview about how we are doing with Polynomials.