Provide options for Self-Regulation

• Promote expectations and beliefs that optimize motivation: Learners feel more motivated when they can set goals that inspire confidence and ownership of learning. Offer tasks and activities that foster self-regulatory and self-reflective skills. For instance, prompts and checklists can help students set self-regulatory goals like reducing the frequency of engaging in distractions.
  
• Facilitate personal coping skills and strategies: To help students develop healthy responses, educators can use real-life scenarios to model the effective use of coping skills and managing frustrations. Also, educators can challenge assumptions by simply using more inclusive language, e.g., how can I improve on certain areas? instead of I am not good at chemistry.
• Develop self-assessment and reflection: Students can benefit from focusing on progress toward goals and from learning from mistakes. It is recommended to display data that shows student progress and achievements; such data can be displayed as checklists, charts, and before and after photos, among others.