Hattie / Learning Impacts
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Making Feedback Visible: Four Levels in Action
Five years ago I was starting to become concerned with the difference between marking and feedback. What was making a difference to my students’ learning and was the effort I was putting into detailed marking worth it in terms of… Continue reading
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The Tempered Learner (on self-regulation)
Going all the way back to my “MYP: Mind The Gap” session at IBAP 2013, I’ve been thinking about defining effective self-directed inquiry, the role of the MYP in “preparing” kids for DP, the approaches to learning and (more recently) building in ideas… Continue reading
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Ready, Steady, Flow: #GAFESummit Presentation
My breakout session at the recent #GAFESummit held at our school. How can we use the tech we have to do the high-impact stuff well and efficiently… so that we can use the tech less and have more fun with… Continue reading
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A pragmatic approach to inquiry: my article in IS magazine
The most recent issue of International School Magazine has run a feature written by me on how we interpret and frame inquiry, and is adapted from one of my recent Bath MA assignments. Continue reading
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How NOT to be ignorant about the world.
Hans Rosling, TED.com “Fame is easy to acquire. Impact is much more difficult.” Update, 2018: As a Rosling fanboy, using their work on i-Biology since about 2008, I was saddened to hear of his death in 2017. However, his recent… Continue reading
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Summertime Subsidence: Vacating the Mind of This Year’s Learning
Nobody wants to be that teacher – the one who assigns a massive packet of busy work, due the first day back to school, but it is evident that extended vacations result in a reversal of some learning. This loss of… Continue reading
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Give a Student a Fish…
“Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he’ll feed his family for a lifetime.” Anne Ritchie, 1885 (maybe) This short post, again related to Understanding Learners and Learning, Visible Learning… Continue reading
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An Inquiry Crossfader: Authentic vs Effective Learning?
In reading more about Understanding Learners and Learning, learning theories and high-impact teaching and learning strategies I got thinking again about a conversation Jon Schatzky and I had a year and half ago about a continuum of inquiry. I’ll use… Continue reading
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Hattie TEDx Talk: Why are so many schools & teachers successful?
This is worth sharing as a neat overview of Hattie’s research and the learning impacts. With Visible Learning as the basis for our Teacher Learning Communities at CA, it makes for a timely resource. Continue reading
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Making Feedback Visible: Four Levels Experiment
Attempting to give feedback based on the four domains: task-level, process-level, self-regulation and self, in a complex MYP Sciences lab investigation. Continue reading
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Hattie & Yates: Visible Learning & the Science of How We Learn
This brief review of John Hattie and Gregory Yates’ Visible Learning & the Science of How we Learn (#HattieVLSL) is written from the multiple perspectives of a science teacher, IB MYP Coordinator and MA student. I have read both Visible Learning… Continue reading
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