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Getting feedback right Part 4: How can we increase pupils’ aspiration?

Apr 02, 2014 | Category: assessment

You may remember that over the past few weeks I've been trying to refine my thinking about how we can improve the way we give feedback. If you haven't already read the previous instalments, you might...

#John Hattie #feedback #Education Endowment Foundation #aspirations

Everything we've been told about teaching is wrong, and what to do about it!

Mar 09, 2014 | Category: myths

It was great to be back at the IOE for Pedagoo London 2014, and many thanks must go to @hgaldinoshea & @kevbartle for organising such a wonderful (and free!) event. As ever there's never enough time t...

#Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #Robert Bjork #David Mcraney #Christopher Chabris #Daniel Simons #Katherine Schultz #PedagooLondon14

Getting feedback right Part 1 - Why do we give it?

Mar 04, 2014 | Category: assessment

It's become a truism that feedback is the most important activity that teachers engage in. Feedback, we are repeatedly told, is tremendously powerful and therefore teachers must do more of it. Certain...

#Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #feedback

Old Hat(tie)? Some things you ought to know about effect sizes

Jan 24, 2014 | Category: myths

Ever since Hattie published Visible Learning back in 2009 the Effect Size has been king. For those of you who don't know, an effect size is a mechanism for comparing the relative merits of different i...

#Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #effect sizes #Ollie Orange

Force fed feedback: is less more?

Jan 26, 2014 | Category: Featured

It is commonly and widely accepted that feedback is the best, brightest and shiniest thing we can be doing as teachers, and the more of it the better. Ever since Prof Hattie published Visible Learning...

#Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #feedback #Robert Bjork #Andy Day

Better analysis: seeing the wood AND the trees

Nov 03, 2013 | Category: literacy

I've been exploring better ways to teach analysis and evaluation for some time now. A few years ago I stumbled on the idea of zooming in and out which has gone viral and made its way into the teaching...

#John Hattie #Reading #zooming in and out #De La Paz and Felton

Is failure just a lack of practice?

Sep 28, 2013 | Category: Featured

Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho!You must learn to fail intelligently. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. One fails fo...

#failure #Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #Samuel Beckett #Thomas Edison #Andy Weir #Taylor Mali

Hang on in there: could encouragement be more useful than praise?

Sep 27, 2013 | Category: learning

Last week I expanded on some of my doubts about the concept of praise, particularly the current consensus that we should be going out of our way to praise effort. I concluded by saying, "no one would...

#Carol Dweck #John Hattie #praise #Harry Webb #Alfie Kohn #competition #deciles #encouragment #Tim Taylor

Is praise counter productive?

Sep 22, 2013 | Category: behaviour

I had an interesting discussion with Tim Taylor this morning. He said, "At best, praising effort has a neutral or no effect when students are successful, but is likely to be negative when students ar...

#Carol Dweck #John Hattie #praise #Alfie Kohn

Hats, schmats: what really matters is the quality of debate

Sep 21, 2013 | Category: blogging

I feel the need to make a few things clear. A few days ago I wrote this: Six Silly Hats (When is it OK to mock stuff you think is daft?) and some of the response I got suggested that I was confused on...

#John Hattie #Harry Webb #Edward de Bono #Thinking Hats #Debra Kidd