Deputy Principal (Andrew Healey)

Instructional Theories

Visible Learning: when teachers see learning through the eyes of students. The most simplistic question asked of students is: so what have you learnt today? As teachers we can state what was covered through our objectives, our learning strategies and our lesson plans. But what is the answer from a student’s perspective? Below is a Hatties finding regarding student learning with visible learning highlighted as the largest impact.

There is a lot of information about visible learning. One site to visit is https://teamtomeducation.com/what-is-student-visible-learning/. The strategies noted are ones that we as good teachers do quite a lot. Maybe it’s about how consistent we do this. Or maybe the depth of how we do these strategies. I particularly like strategy 2: Ask students to explain the task to each other before beginning instruction and again before beginning the task.

RTP

Teachers are responsible to check that the correct contexts have been linked to their lower school assessment outlines. If in doubt speak to the HoLA. This will assist in the reporting process when comments are allocated to each class in the correct context.