Leadership
How Can We Support Overloaded Teachers to Keep Getting Better?
Rigorous, sustained and job-embedded professional learning for teachers is critical; the research is clear that a rise in student outcomes is not possible without an investment in our teachers. But on the ground, enhancing teacher practice is hard. School terms move at a frenetic pace, life at the chalkface can be unpredictable,
Visible Learning
John Hattie Answers Your Feedback Questions Part 2
The Visible Learning research concluded that feedback has a powerful effect on student learning. During his recent webinar, Professor Hattie asked attendees to send in
John Hattie Answers Your Feedback Questions Part 1
Professor John Hattie’s landmark Visible Learning research concluded that effective feedback, combined with effective instruction, improves the rate of learning by a factor of 2!
Progress Monitoring Tools to Make Learning VISIBLE
As educators, we spend each day talking with our students, asking questions, listening to their responses, observing their work, and giving feedback. At the end
Teaching Methods
Teaching Students to Drive Their Learning By Teaching Others
Amy Berry (2022) argues that when students are engaged, they drive their own learning. To do so, students must know their current level of performance
Supporting Learners in Where They Go Next in Their Learning: Back-End Scaffolding
Scaffolding is an ongoing process of providing front-end, distributed, and back-end scaffolds. Along with peer scaffolding, these are part of our larger model of scaffolding. Source:
Are We Asking the Right Questions? Reflecting with New Teachers
Common Reflection Questions As many educators wrap up their school year, they are reflecting on the ups and downs. I can imagine new teachers and their
