Evolving our practice.

Well, another school year is almost upon us and we are about to head back into classrooms across the state.  Schools are choosing from a pool of CRTs and they naturally want the most effective ones they can get into their classrooms making ours a performance driven job market.  How do we meet this challenge head-on and sort the wheat from the chaff when it comes to our classroom practice?

Many of us are aware of John Hattie's research in the context of how the government has used it against Australian schools to lower funding;  "Teachers are the most important factor in education and all the money we have thrown at it hasn't increased outcomes".  The good news is that this isn't how John Hattie intended his research to be used and it's got some good information in it for us as teachers too.

It's worth a look and keeping those highly effective factors in mind as we evolve our teaching practice.

Here's a couple of links to follow if this grabbed you and you want to find out a little more.

"What's good for the goose..." (DEECD research article - PDF):

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/about/research/ravisiblelearning.pdf

Hattie Ranking (Visible-learning.org):

http://visible-learning.org/hattie-ranking-influences-effect-sizes-learning-achievement/

Regards,

Mel.