The 8th Annual Visible Learning Conference, originally slated for New Orleans, streamed live on Zoom with almost 1,000 colleagues online with us. The conference opened with our MC, Sonja Alexander, welcoming attendees with the New Second Line Song by Mardi Gras Big Shots and Milton
Short post description: If we want students to become visible learners and to truly be their own teachers, we need to teach them how to use self-questioning to guide their learning. From the series: Developing Students’ Ownership of Learning—from a Distance, too! Post #1 Post #2
From the series: Developing Students’ Ownership of Learning—from a Distance, too! Post #1 Post #2 Post #3 Post #4 Teaching Students How to Solicit Feedback Let’s continue our journey to developing assessment-capable, visible learners. At this point, students know what they are supposed to be learning, what success looks
From the series: Developing Students’ Ownership of Learning—from a Distance, too! Post #1 Post #2 Post #3 Post #4: Selecting Tools to Guide Learning Let’s continue our journey to developing assessment-capable, visible learners. At this point, students know what they are supposed to be learning, what success looks like,
We have so much to learn from the recent “pandemic teaching and learning” experience. The strongest message is to learn from what went well during COVID, and ensure we do NOT return to the old ‘grammar of schooling’. We should be collating and sharing all
From the series: Developing Students’ Ownership of Learning—from a Distance, too! Check out Posts #1 and #2. Let’s continue our journey to developing assessment-capable, visible learners. At this point, students know what they are supposed to be learning, what success looks like, and how they can monitor their progress. The next
What does the future hold when the majority of secondary students can’t tell the difference between a news story and an advertisement? Or when they fail to answer basic questions about enslaved people in the United States or the Holocaust in Europe? Or when 24% of U.S. millennials consider democracy to be a ‘bad’ or ‘very bad’ way of running
From the series: Developing Students’ Ownership of Learning—from a Distance, too! Check out Post #1 here. This week we’re back and ready to focus on a new aspect of developing assessment-capable, visible learners. As you probably remember, we’re interested in helping students take responsibility for their learning
With the prospect of schools being out for a while, I will review some of the Visible Learning influences that may help understand what really matters and what does not matter as much. First, does it matter that students are not in the physical place called school? There is a body of research on the effects of losing school time, but
From the series: Developing Students’ Ownership of Learning—from a Distance, too! Over the past several years, we have worked together with our colleague John Hattie to identify key practices that help students develop ownership of their learning. We believe that students can—and should—become their own teachers. And we believe that teachers