Visible Learning for Teachers
Maximizing Impact on Learning
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Visible Learning for Teachers takes the next step and brings those groundbreaking concepts to a completely new audience. Written for students, pre-service and in-service teachers, it explains how to apply the principles of Visible Learning to any classroom anywhere in the world. The author offers concise and user-friendly summaries of the most successful interventions and offers practical step-by-step guidance to the successful implementation of visible learning and visible teaching in the classroom.
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Wisdom to Share
What a student brings to the classroom each year is very much related to his or her achievement in previous years.
Our job as teachers is to plan ways in which to accelerate the growth of those who start behind, so that they can most efficiently attain the curriculum and learning objectives of the lessons alongside the brightest students.
Teachers therefore need to have the ability to identify and quickly act on potential problems and be aware of what is happening in the class.
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Visible teaching and learning occur when there is deliberate practice aimed at attaining mastery of the goal, when there is feedback given and sought, and when there are active, passionate, and engaging people participating in the act of learning.
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