Educate to Self-Regulate
Welcome to Educate to Self-Regulate, a podcast for educational leaders, teachers, and learners.
I’m Dr Shyam Barr, Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Canberra, joined by my co-host Nidean Dickson, Education Leader at Brigidine College. Together, we unpack educational research and translate it into practical approaches that help students become better learners.
Educate to Self-Regulate
47. Use the Australian Curriculum's Personal and Social Capability for Self-Regulated Learning.
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In this episode of Educate to Self-Regulate, Dr Shyam Barr sits down with Paula Hall, a teaching principal who spent 18 months building self-regulation and resilience into a small, multi-age rural school at Coowonga State School, cutting major behaviour incidents by 85%, and is now adapting that same approach as acting principal of the larger Depot Hill State School.
Drawing on Paula's hands-on experience, we unpack how she turned the Australian Curriculum's Personal and Social Capability continuum into a practical, colour-coded guidebook her whole staff could use, and why this kind of intentional capability-building lays the groundwork for stronger academic learning.
In this episode, you'll learn:
✔️ How to use the Personal and Social Capability continuum as a diagnostic and tracking tool for individual student needs.
✔️ Practical choice boards that explicitly build self-awareness, self-management and social awareness, and how Paula is scaling them from a 12-student rural school to a larger context.
✔️ How to build consistency across teachers, teacher aides, wellbeing staff and families so the approach sticks.
The real test of self-regulation development isn't a single lesson, it's whether a whole school community, across ages and roles, can practise it consistently. Master that, and you're building the foundations for behaviour, engagement, independence and wellbeing to follow.
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