―Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and John Hattie
Imagine students who describe their learning in these terms: "I know where I’m going, I have the tools I need for the journey, and I monitor my own progress." Now imagine the extraordinary difference this type of ownership makes in their progress over the course of a school year.
This illuminating book shows how to make this scenario an everyday reality. With its foundation in principles introduced in the authors’ bestselling Visible Learning for Literacy, this resource delves more deeply into the critical component of self-assessment, revealing the most effective types of assessment and how each can motivate students to higher levels of achievement.
Reviews (7)
Great Book for Teachers!
Are you wanting to reach your kids that just don't seem to engage? This book is for you. It really supports the teaching profession with great ideas and solutions to help your students in every venue.
Teaching and Learning
So good I am ordering two more.
Five Stars
Great stuff!
Five Stars
Use the concepts in my classroom
Drastically rearranges K-12.
Sure this one looks on the surface like the latest jargon, but it's stealthy. I've followed John Hattie (one of the three authors) for years, wondering if he's ever going to break through in a way that changes everything. I think the other two authors, Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher, are on point. These authors are talking about helping students to become "visible learners." Visible Learners, personalized learning - a rose by any other name, right? Their goal is for students to take charge of their own learning so they can be self-monitoring and self-directed. They're talking about adaptive assessments, self-directed practice and technology. Lots of technology. Here's what: I've got kids in elementary school and get compliance emails every school day. The teachers are shown as email senders, but better paid folks in the district office write all these long emails. These emails are to organize parents, and actually they are to intimidate parents because nobody has time to read all of them, for real. It's a compliance system that incorporates the new lingo and even uses some Chromebooks - without really changing. So who is this book for, I wonder. Is it for prospective teachers to provide a glimpse of what should or could be? Nevertheless, the book gives me hope. The book exposes the K-12 secret to the software developers and potentially to artificial intelligence systems. Maybe one day students and parents will get feedback in real time so that errors will as a matter of course turn into learning opportunities. I read the book closely. The authors find that adaptive learning technologies and methods will produce superior results. We could only dream about this in earlier times. Now we have to fight for it.
There definitely is useful information for my level of teaching and the authors ...
As I suspected, this was a lot to read through in order to make gains in my particular teaching practice. When I saw the book was aimed at a wide range (K-12) I was skeptical, yet hopeful. Since I work with kindergarten and first grade now I found I had to wade through a lot to get to beneficial pieces. There definitely is useful information for my level of teaching and the authors did make the effort to present some information for both the lower level and the upper level. Even with this adaption, however, I found it difficult to find as much useful and applicable information as I had wanted. Some info is broken down to K-5, for example, but it was still not useful for my purposes. If you teach grade 3+ I think you will find this book to be much more valuable. I don't feel I wasted my time on this book but I wish my time investment yielded a greater benefit.
Mostly retread, don't spend more than $25, get 10 Mindframes instead
This book comes off as a regurgitation of already released information cashing in on the names of the authors. It's seems "phoned in" and if you already have "10 Mindframes for Visual learning", you just don't need this book. If you don't have 10 Mindframes, you can pick it up a LOT cheaper. There is not a lot of new material here and it just doesn't justify the cost.
