Hattie yt visible. What can we learn from Dylan Wiliam and AfL? ‘The only thing we learn from the past is how little we’ve learned from our mistakes’.
Geog Wilhem Friedrich Hegel ‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it’ George Santayana ‘Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders’. Friedrich Nietzsche Inside the black box of classroom practice… Formative assessment helps pupils understand how to improve but requires teachers to focus on what works best and change their habits of practice. i. Before I started to teach, my Head of Department said, ‘if you read one thing, read ‘Inside the Black Box’.
AfL in a nutshell. ii. Few education concepts have been more distorted in a shorter time span than formative assessment: teachers falling prey to gimmicks, schools mandating unhelpful AfL policies, and government policy confusing AfL with national levels. Dylan Wiliam himself recognises these unintended consequences as what he calls ‘policy diffraction;’ or, more graphically, ‘scoring a spectacular own goal’. SOLO Symbol Generator. Ideas, issues, knowledge, data - visualized! TASC - Thinking Actively in a Social Context. Welcome to Visible Learning. SOLO Taxonomy - A framework for learning.
Think Link. iTeachFreely - SOLO Taxonomy 2: usage examples. Despite setting myself the target of writing one post per week, due to a hectic month I have fallen behind. Time to get back on track! This is a very wordy blog post but I hope you find it useful. Recently, I delivered a small section of an INSET day at our school. The INSET was planned and led by the school's 'Pedagogy Leaders', a team of teachers whose task it is to share good practice and promote great pedagogy across the school.
I've been very keen to work with the group to improve my own practice and share my ideas. The day was laid out around the school's newly proposed Accelerated Learning Cycle. I felt the day was a great success, with lots of positive feedback received from our colleagues. I think it's important to point out that SOLO can be used in plenty of activities that you may already be doing. To help "SOLO virgins" get started, I'm going to write about a few ways in which I have used SOLO in the classroom.
SOLO Stations HOT maps Interacting with GCSE markschemes Planning. Why hexagons are better than squares... by Chris Harte on Prezi. 2 minute lesson plan.
Making learning visible. SOLO. Ron Berger on Critique (1 of 2) Jonah Lehrer - Does Brainstorming Work? Oral Formative Feedback – Top Ten Strategies. People who have read my #marginalgains blog posts will know I am going over old ground here – intentionally so – as I am looking to dig deeper towards the key marginal gains that have the biggest impact on learning.
For me, formative oral feedback and questioning are the two key ‘hinge point marginal gains’ that make for great teaching and learning. My previous #marginalgains blog identified new teaching strategies for these tow key area ad pedagogy, but here I wanted to use this blog to reflect on what I view as the most high impact formative oral feedback strategies that I have been using in my everyday practice. I want to use my list as a reminder, each time I plan lessons, of the key strategies to use – as it is too easy to forget and slip into autopilot planning, forgetting even our most effective of strategies. In nearly all of these examples the feedback includes all three parties possible in the class: the learner, peers and the teacher.
My Oral feedback Top Ten Guided Writing: