Deputy Principal (Andrew Healey)

Year 12 Results

General courses are winding up their assessments this week. Final grades do not have to be entered until Friday 14 October; this includes Year 12 ATAR courses. Please refrain from entering grades until Week 1 in Term 4.

Visible Learning

Over the next few weeks, we will be looking back at Visible Learning. At any point, teachers can easily Google Visible Learning and a multitude of websites are there to gain information. Whatever resource is accessed, Hatties research indicates that Visible Learning has the biggest impact on student achievement.

Cathy and Michelle, having taught ATAR Psychology, are very familiar with a guy called Bandura. Bandura explored ‘efficacy’ and expanded his studies into ‘collective efficacy’:

“a group’s shared belief in the conjoint capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required to produce given levels of attainment.”

Simply put, the more teachers in a learning area act as a team with a sound approach to improve student outcomes will see that happen in their classes. Linking this to classroom (peer) observations the better this approach becomes.