Strategic Content Learning

Strategic Content Learning (SCL) is designed to promote self-regulated, or strategic learning by students.

In SCL, students are supported to engage in the complete cycle of self-regulated activities associated with successful learning. These activities include analyzing task demands, selecting, adapting, or even inventing personalized strategies, implementing and monitoring strategy effectiveness, self-evaluating performance, and revising goals or strategies adaptively.

A simplified model of self-regulated learning that reflects these steps is:

SCL supports self-regulated learning across a wide range of tasks (e.g., reading, writing, math).

To promote self-regulated learning, SCL instructors:

• Facilitate students’ completion of the complete cycle of self-regulating activities

• Guide students’ cognitive processing (rather than telling them what to do)

• Support students to problem solve their completion of important academic tasks

• Assist students to develop personalized strategies (rather than teaching predefined strategies to students)

• Assist students to construct knowledge and beliefs that support self-regulated learning

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