Undermining Student Improvement
Originally posted on Figuring It Out by J. Bevacqua
I am beginning to wonder if, in my earnest desire to to do what what’s best for kids and their learning, I have inadvertently enabled complacency and undermined improvement.Let me explain.
Recently I have immersed myself in John Hattie’s book Visible Learning Visible Learning - a book, I believe, every educator, at all levels, must read.
The book is a culmination of years of research and analysis of what has the greatest positive impact on student achievement.
So let’s cut to the chase. Hattie identifies a number influences on student performance and ranks them in order of positive impact.
In summary, the most positive influences on student achievement put the individual teacher at the centre of the improvement. Whether it’s providing quality feedback, understanding how different students think (meta cognition), how open a teacher is to the evidence of their impact on student
