In my last post, part 1 of developing a robust process for improvement, I (Alaina) shared Tim Harford's recipe for successfully adapting success from failure. With that quote reverberating in my head so much, it was bound to bounce off of some of the other ideas I was mulling over.
I'm glad to say that the quote bumped into my thoughts about Ertmer & Ertmer's (1998) article about self-regulated speech-sound carryover. When I had originally read this article, it was because I wanted to learn a new therapy technique. As a Speech & Language Pathologist, I was looking for ways to help kids make the leap from being able to produce a new speech sound during structured practice, to being able to use the new speech sound all the time in their spontaneous conversations. But after reading Adapt I realized that Ertmer & Ertmer's "self-regulation" carryover method in fact follows Harford's same line of logic.
Ertmer & Ertmer's article focuses on helping children discover their own personal strategies for speech-sound carryover. In it, the SLP uses a constructivist teaching method to help children become self-regulated learners who can plan strategies, try their strategies out, self-monitor, self-evaluate, and plan new strategies based on their self-evaluation.
It turns out that this article is a detailed guide to helping children adapt and reach carryover success, by helping children to notice and learn from the times when they forget to use speech sounds. But also, in its detail, Ertmer & Ertmer's article has ideas to lend to my ongoing goal of developing a robust process for improvement of my effectiveness as a Speech & Language Pathologist.
Next up, look for part 3 in this series. I'll be sharing my homemade process of improvement, which combines Harford's ideas and Ertmer & Ertmer's ideas.
