There are at least two contrasting metaphors of SRL that researchers
and teachers can use. One is the metaphor of acquisition,
of learning new strategies and skills and then applying
them in school. This is the classic view of academic strategies
as specialized tools that need to be taught, practiced, and applied
in school. In this view, teachers know good strategies
and students do not, therefore teachers must describe them
and exhort students to use them. A problem with this transmission
model is that “having” a strategy does not mean that
students will value or use it.