Teachers need to see learning through the eyes of the child ..... so that children can see themselves as their own teachers." - John Hattie, Visible Teaching - Visible Learning
The Visible Learning Cycle.
Learning Intentions & Success Criteria
- What kinds of feedback are our students receiving? Is the feedback effective in enhancing learning and encouraging students to be self-regulating and engaged learners? Punchbowl PS, 2011
- How are we using feedback & positive talk to build relationships that promote student engagement? Guildford West PS, 2014
- How well are formative assessment practices used to encourage students in their learning and inform teachers planning? How are students encouraged to be active participants in the learning? Granville South PS, 2012
- To what extent is formative assessment impacting on the learning and engagement of our students? Guildford West PS, 2016
- How well are we engineering learning so that our students: Understand what it is they're learning and why it's important; Know how successful they are in that learning; and Understand where to next? Granville South PS, 2015
The Visible Learning Cycle in our header is a diagrammatic representation of the interwoven aspects of pedagogy that several theorists have proposed as essential for enhancing learning.
Dylan Wiliam in Paul Black in their ground-breaking booklet, "Inside the Black Box" published in 1998 found that: "There is a body of firm evidence that formative assessment is an essential feature of classroom work and that development of it can raise standards. We know of no other way of raising standards for which such a strong prima facie case can be made on the basis of evidence of such large learning gains".
For Wiliam, formative assessment is a process that teachers use "Minute by Minute and Day by Day. There are many techniques that teachers can use to gain formative assessment information, but assessment is only formative if it is used to adapt the lesson.
John Hattie in 2009 uses the formative assessment cycle as his model of "Explicit Teaching "The teacher decides the learning intention and success criteria, makes them transparent to the students, demonstrates them by modelling, evaluates what they have been told by checking for understanding, and retelling them what they have been told by tying it all together with closure"
Through the use of LSC and formative assessment, the teachers' intention becomes visible to students and the students' learning becomes visible to teachers.
Dylan Wiliam in Paul Black in their ground-breaking booklet, "Inside the Black Box" published in 1998 found that: "There is a body of firm evidence that formative assessment is an essential feature of classroom work and that development of it can raise standards. We know of no other way of raising standards for which such a strong prima facie case can be made on the basis of evidence of such large learning gains".
For Wiliam, formative assessment is a process that teachers use "Minute by Minute and Day by Day. There are many techniques that teachers can use to gain formative assessment information, but assessment is only formative if it is used to adapt the lesson.
John Hattie in 2009 uses the formative assessment cycle as his model of "Explicit Teaching "The teacher decides the learning intention and success criteria, makes them transparent to the students, demonstrates them by modelling, evaluates what they have been told by checking for understanding, and retelling them what they have been told by tying it all together with closure"
Through the use of LSC and formative assessment, the teachers' intention becomes visible to students and the students' learning becomes visible to teachers.
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This presentation, prepared by Barbara Reynolds, highlights the key aspects to keep in mind when planning learning intentions, success criteria, formative assessment and feedback. Click here to download
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A fabulous summary of each step of the formative assessment process with tips for each. Click here to download
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Practical examples that you could use for each of the 5 key strategies for formative assessment
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This presentation by Burwood PS shows the key things to keep in mind when creating Learning Intentions. Click here to download
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CLARITY
In a recent round we revisited the components of the formative assessment cycle. This time we used the framework of "Clarity" - a simple synthesis of the work of previous theorists. Check out the network developed resources for Learning Intentions and Feedback as well as other handy hints. |