 | 10 Mindframes for Visible Learning: Teaching for Success
by John Hattie & Klaus Zierer
The original Visible Learning research concluded that one of the most important influencers of student achievement is how teachers think about learning and their own role.
In Ten Mindframes for Visible Learning, John Hattie and Klaus Zierer define the ten behaviors or mindframes that teachers need to adopt in order to maximize student success.
These include:
- thinking of and evaluating your impact on students’ learning;
- the importance of assessment and feedback for teachers;
- working collaboratively and the sense of community;
- the notion that learning needs to be challenging;
- engaging in dialogue and the correct balance between talking and listening;
- conveying the success criteria to learners;
- building positive relationships.
These powerful mindframes, which should underpin every action in schools, are founded on the principle that teachers are evaluators, change agents, learning experts, and seekers of feedback who are constantly engaged with dialogue and challenge.
This practical guide, which includes questionnaires, scenarios, checklists, and exercises, will show any school exactly how to implement Hattie’s mindframes to maximise success.
Published: 15th December 2017
ISBN: 9781138635524
Number Of Pages: 180
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 | 10 Steps to Develop Great Learners
10 Steps to Develop Great Learners
Visible Learning for Parents
Author: John Hattie, Kyle Hattie
What can concerned parents and carers do to ensure their children, of all ages, develop great learning habits which will help them achieve their maximum at school and in life? This is probably one of the most important questions any parent can ask and now John Hattie, one of the most respected and renowned Education researchers in the world draws on his globally famous Visible Learning research to provide some answers.
Writing this book with his own son Kyle, himself a respected teacher, the Hatties offer a 10-step plan to nurturing curiosity and intellectual ambition and providing a home environment that encourages and values learning. These simple steps based on the strongest of research evidence and packed full of practical advice can be followed by any parent or carer to support and enhance learning and maximize the potential of their children. Areas covered include:
Communicating effectively with teachers
Being the ‘first learner’ and demonstrating openness to new ideas and thinking
Choosing the right school for your child
Promoting the ‘language of learning’
Having appropriately high expectations and understanding the power of feedback
Anyone concerned about the education and development of our children should read this book. For parents it is an essential guide that could make a vital difference to your child's life. For schools, school leaders and education authorities this is a book you should be encouraging every parent to read to support learning and maximize opportunities for all.
Available: 8th April 2022
ISBN: 9781032189291
Number Of Pages: 168
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 | 10 Things New Teachers Need to Succeed 2ed
Author: Robin Fogarty What are ten things that help new teachers get off to a good start?
How can educators excel in this complex, demanding, and ultimately rewarding profession?
These answers, along with high impact strategies, can be found in this must-have resource.
Filled with words of wisdom, practical advice, and action steps to achieve success in those critical first years, this powerful little booklet distills the teaching and consulting experience of an international author and teacher of teachers.
It includes:
- high-impact strategies for novice and veteran practitioners
- how-to for communicating with parents - techniques for planning for the unexpected
- a unique format for teacher teams to discuss one chapter a month
- action steps to achieve success in the crucial first years
This handy guide is a quick reference tool on everything from writing rubrics to communicating with parents to planning for the unexpected. Teams of new and experienced teachers can grow together by discussing and applying a chapter a month over a year.
Regular price: 42.99
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| 9781412938938 |
 | 100 Activities for Teaching Research Methods
100 Activities for Teaching Research Methods
Catherine Dawson
A sourcebook of exercises, games, scenarios and role plays for research methods tutors, teachers and lecturers, this practical, user-friendly guide has been developed to complement and enhance existing course materials. It is full of activities that contain clear guidance about the purpose, level and type of activity, along with a range of discussion notes that signpost key issues and research insights. Important terms, related activities and further reading suggestions are included for each activity.
The book contains 100 ready-to-use activities that provide a complete and valuable resource for educators, all of which are also available to be downloaded online.
Innovative and engaging classroom practice is encouraged in seven areas:
• finding and using sources of information
• planning a research project
• conducting research
• using and analyzing data
• disseminating results
• acting ethically
• developing deeper research skills
Every university with a Social Science department has to deliver research methods in some capacity, but there is no need for us all to sit in our institutional silos and reinvent the wheel. Dawson provides a huge and varied list of pre-designed activities for methods teachers to draw upon covering the whole research process and an eclectic range of methodological approaches. The activities are pedagogically engaging, comprehensively resourced and provide us with an opportunity to rethink how social science research methods can be taught in a more interactive and engaging way.
384 Pages | Pbk
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 | 365 Things To Make You Go Hmmm: A Year's Worth of Class Thin
365 Things To Make You Go Hmmm… A year's worth of class thinking
Author: Sparky Teaching Good teachers know that in order to have children learning, first of all you need to have children thinking. And the better that thinking, the better the learning. This engaging, entertaining and visually striking book is full of simple, practical and proven ideas, tasks, tools and strategies do just that – make children of all abilities to stop, think, reflect, ponder and wonder. Drawing on the success of the author’s popular website, this book will start the cognitive ball rolling across a whole range of disciplines including numeracy, literacy, problem solving, decision-making, interpersonal skills and critical thinking. So, before you get to that all-important ‘a-ha’ moment, let this book help you with those overlooked, but equally important, moments where you all just go ‘hmmm …’
Regular price: 31.99
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| 9781781351154 |
 | 50 Teaching and Learning Approaches
50 Teaching and Learning Approaches: Simple, easy and effective ways to engage learners and measure their progress
Sharron Mansell, Ann Gravells and Andrew Hampel
This reader-friendly and accessible text introduces 50 learning and teaching approaches and explores how they work in practice by taking an honest look at the advantages and disadvantages of each one. For each approach, the authors include in-practice examples taken from a range of teaching contexts. The text also offers clear support for teachers on how they can assess learners' progress when using each approach. This focus on the need to see and measure the learning that is taking place supports the reader to concentrate on the learning and not be distracted with the newness of different approaches.
Published: 4th October 2019
ISBN: 9781526488756
Number Of Pages: 160
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 | 88 Ideas to Teach More Effectively
88 Ideas to Teach More Effectively : Forget Being the Favourite
Tim Bowman, Foreward by John Hattie
"This is GOOD. Really, really extraordinary stuff. I don't think I've ever seen a similar book on education". - Seth Godin
"Tim writes with flair … A book you can read, dip into, come back to, and I can imagine these pages appearing on a student or teachers desk to inspire, contemplate, or react to". - John Hattie
If you are after a compendium of detailed lesson plans, this is not the book for you.
If you want to hear from a self-professed teaching guru, this is not the book for you.
If you believe the road to being an effective teacher is paved with uncertainty, contradictions and mistakes…this may be the book for you.
Designed to be unlike any other education book, 88 Ideas to Teach More Effectively is packed with practical wisdom to encourage teachers to maximise their impact and be happier.
This book aims to challenge and inspire students, teachers and everyone involved in education, no matter what their background. All will find value in reading this concise and accessible book.
Combined with 88 entertaining, full-colour illustrations this book is basically a chocolate bar that’s good for you!
Topics include:
Hook ‘em early;
Forget being the favourite;
Teach sticky;
Say I don’t know;
Teachable moments;
Removing your emotions
You will feel terrible sometimes;
You’re not "just a teacher";
Don’t miss an opportunity.
88 Ideas to Teach More Effectively is an invaluable guide for students, teachers and newly qualified teachers who are wanting to reflect on their role and impact…plus, it has pretty pictures.
182 pages | Oct 2016
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| 9781138675421 |
 | A Guide to Documenting Learning
A Guide to Documenting Learning: Making Thinking Visible, Meaningful, Shareable, and Amplified
by Silvia Tolisano and Janet Hale
What is learning? How do we look for, capture, reflect on, and share learning to foster meaningful and active engagement? A Guide to Documenting Learning helps educators answer these questions.
Documenting learning is a process that makes thinking about learning processes visible, meaningful, shareable, and amplified. It facilitates student-driven learning, helping students reflect on and articulate their own learning processes. It also helps teachers reflect on their own learning and classroom practice.
When teachers are co-creators with their students, both gain valuable insights that inform future learning and empower students as engaged learners.
This unique how-to book
- Explains the purposes and different types of documentation
- Teaches different “LearningFlow” systems to help educators integrate
documentation throughout the curriculum
- Provides authentic examples of documentation in real classrooms
- Is accompanied by a robust companion website where readers can find even more documentation examples and video tutorials
Written for educators of any grade level, this book provides insights into contemporary learning and professional learning environments, and emphasizes the power of technology to amplify teaching and learning beyond school walls.
Regular price: 58.99
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| 9781506385570 |
 | A Handbook for High Reliability Schools
Author: Robert Marzano, Phil Warrick, Julia A Simms, Janelle Wills, David Livingston, Fred Pleis, Tamm Usher in the new era of school reform with A Handbook for High Reliability Schools. In this invaluable manual for whole-school improvement, Dr Robert Marzano and his co-authors help you to transform your school into an organisation that takes proactive steps to prevent failure and ensure student success. Using a research-based five-level hierarchy along with leading and lagging indicators, you’ll learn to assess, monitor and confirm the effectiveness of your school. Each chapter includes what actions should be taken at each level, along with comprehensive reproducible surveys for school leaders, teachers, students and parents that will enable you to quickly and easily gather data and determine specific areas on which to focus improvement initiatives.
Using the High Reliability Schools framework, your school can
understand the most crucial factors involved in creating and sustaining a High Reliability School
recognise and stop problems in the school before they become an issue
study examples for tackling common situations that take place at each level of the hierarchy
access resources for gathering data at each level of the hierarchy
This revised Australian edition of A Handbook for High Reliability Schools has been adapted by Dr Janelle Wills, director of the Marzano Institute Australia, to align with Australian educational policies and practices. Although Australian schools have not traditionally operated from a high reliability perspective, there is nothing stopping them from doing so. Using this handbook, leaders can guide their schools to unprecedented levels of performance.
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| MRL2779 |
 | A Handbook for Personalized Competency-Based Education
by Robert J. Marzano, Jennifer S. Norford, Michelle Finn & Douglas Finn III
In K-12 education's growing movement of competency-based education and personalized learning, both contradictory and overlapping definitions come up around these two terms. To clear up this confusion, A Handbook for Personalized Competency-Based Education delves into the components of a personalized competency-based education (PCBE) system.
This handbook explores approaches, strategies, and techniques that schools and districts should consider as they rethink traditional instruction to fit a PCBE system and support student learning. The authors share examples of how to use proficiency scales, standard operating procedures, behavior rubrics, personal tracking matrices, and other tools to aid in instruction and assessment.
Benefits
- Receive clear guidance on implementing a personalized competency-based education (PCBE) system.
- Determine what content to focus on and what standards to prioritize in personalized instruction.
- Read vignettes that illustrate the shifts that should occur to foster PCBE.
- Learn how a flexible PCBE learning environment of student agency can foster self-efficacy.
- Understand the variety of assessments available for measuring student proficiency in a PCBE system.
Contents
Chapter 1: Why Competency-Based Education and Personalized Learning?
Chapter 2: What Content Will Be Addressed?
Chapter 3: How Will the Learning Environment Promote Student Agency?
Chapter 4: How Will Instruction Support Student Learning?
Chapter 5: How Will Student Proficiency Be Measured?
Chapter 6: How Will Scheduling Accommodate Student Learning?
Chapter 7: How Will Reporting Facilitate Student Learning?
Chapter 8: How Do Schools and Districts Transition to a PCBE System?
Epilogue
Appendix A: Tools to Support Student Agency
Appendix B: A Model of Effective Instruction
Appendix C: Sample Grading Sheet
Appendix D: Resources for Creating a Shared Vision
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