Join us in Visible Learning workshops and learn literacy practices that ensure students demonstate academic growth. Based on Dr. John Hattie's synthesis of more than 15 years of research involving millions of students, these practices make learning visible for teachers and students to see.
You will learn in interactive workshops ways to design learning experiences in all content areas for your students that have a clear purpose, use the right approach to hit the surface, deep, and transfer phases of learning, and support students becoming more self confident learners able to track their own progress. Hattie's research shows us which instructional routines have the most impact on learning, and we'll explore the most effective ones and how to use them in classrooms.
In one work session School leaders will study and consider how teacher atttiude and 'mind frames' affect the impact of their teaching. Dr. Hattie believes how teachers think about teaching is the core of their competence as teachers. We'll also discuss which instructional routines have the most impact on learning and how to encourage teachers to use them.
Participants will receive books for Visible Learning for Literacy, Visible Learning for Mathematics, and Assessmnent-Capable Learners in those workshops.
NOTE: The Visible Learning Workshops were created and will be presented by Region 13 literacy specialists as a part of our collaboration with Corwin, the publishers and providers of professional development for Visible Learning and John Hattie's work.
In the best science classrooms, teachers see learning through the eyes of their students, and students see themselves as explorers and scientists. With so many instructional strategies for teachers to choose---inquiry, labs, project-based, and discovery learning--which is most successful for student learning critical science content? In the Visible Learning for Science workshop, participants will determine how to choose the right approach at the right time in their teaching to move students from surface to deep to transfer learning.
We'll use John Almarode's (with Hattie, Frey, & Fisher) book Visible Learning for Science as a foundation for our exploration of how to guide students to a deeper understanding of scientific inquiry in a K-12 framework that will help us plan and investigate scientific connections in order to solve complex problems in science. The Visible Learning framework allows teachers to design maximum-impact science teaching for topics in the life and physical sciences, so students can demonstrate more than a year's worth of learning for a year spent in school. Consider the impact of that boost in learning on your STAAR assessment scores.