Agency, self-regulation, motivation, for far too long we’ve chased these outcomes without a plan. But now this: a Teacher’s Guide for the most important curriculum of all—teaching learners how to learn.Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey deliver, with coauthors John Hattie and Karen Flories, the lessons and tools you need to teach students to thrive using the tenets of Visible Learning.
With 15 focus lessons, you help students to build the skills to become assessment capable: setting learning goals, measuring against success criteria, soliciting feedback, and more. These lessons along with many practical templates correlate with the companion Learner’s Notebook.
Part 1: Introduction
What is Visible Learning?
Effect Size
The Notebook
Overview
How to Use the Notebook
Part 2: Student Lessons
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1. Setting Learning Goals
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2. Becoming an Assessment-Capable Visible Learner
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3. Learning Intentions and Success Criteria - How They Support Your Learning
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4. What Does Success Look Like?
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5. Using Success Criteria to Keep Track of Your Progress
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6. Taking on the Learning Challenge - Part 1
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7. Taking on the Challenge of Learning - Part 2
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8. Learning How to Learn
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9. Is It Time For Feedback?
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10. Seeing Errors as Opportunities to Learn
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11. Self-Questioning to Guide Your Learning
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12. Peer Teaching with Think Alouds
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13. Teaching Your Classmates with Reciprocal Teaching
Part 3: Additional Tools and Templates
1. Student Learning Goal Template
2. Assessment-Capable Visible Learner Self-Assessment
3. Learning Intentions and Success Criteria Self-Assessment
4. Co-Constructing Success Criteria Template
5. Self-Assessing Your Progress Using Success Criteria Template
6. Taking on the Challenge of Learning
7. Taking on the Challenge of Learning - Part 2
8. Study Skills Checklist
9. Is It Time for Feedback? Checklist
10. Reflecting on Errors as Opportunities to Learn Template
11. Using Self-Questioning to Guide Your Learning Template
12. Checklist for Peer Teaching with Think Alouds
13. Student Sentence Starters for Reciprocal Teaching
Douglas Fisher is professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College. Previously, Doug was an early intervention teacher and elementary school educator. He is a credentialed English teacher and administrator in California. In 2022, he was inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame by the Literacy Research Association. He has published numerous articles on reading and literacy, differentiated instruction, and curriculum design, as well as books such as The Teacher Clarity Playbook 2/e, Your Introduction to PLC+, The Illustrated Guide to Teacher Credibility, Instructional Strategies that Move Learning Forward: 30 Tools that Support Gradual Release of Responsibility, and Welcome to Teaching!
Nancy Frey is a Professor in Educational Leadership at San Diego State and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College. She is a credentialed special educator, reading specialist, and administrator in California. She is a member of the International Literacy Associations Literacy Research Panel. Her published titles include 50 Strategies for Activating Your PLC+, The Illustrated Guide to Visible Learning, Welcome to Teaching Multilingual Learners, Teaching Foundational Skills to Adolescent Readers, and RIGOR Unveiled: A Video-Enhanced Flipbook to Promote Teacher Expertise in Relationship Building, Instruction, Goals, Organization, and Relevance.
John Hattie, PhD, is an award-winning education researcher and best-selling author with nearly thirty years of experience examining what works best in student learning and achievement. His research, better known as Visible Learning, is a culmination of nearly thirty years synthesizing more than 2,100 meta-analyses comprising more than one hundred thousand studies involving over 300 million students around the world. He has presented and keynoted in over three hundred international conferences and has received numerous recognitions for his contributions to education. His notable publications include Visible Learning, Visible Learning for Teachers, Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn; Visible Learning for Mathematics, Grades K-12; and 10 Mindframes for Visible Learning. Karen Flories was the Executive Director of Educational Services for 5 years and Director of Literacy and Social Studies for 2 years with Valley View School District in Illinois, after serving as the English Department Chair for Romeoville High School. Karens classroom experience includes high school English, special education, and alternative education. Karen holds credentials in general education, special education, and educational leadership. She earned her masters degree in educational leadership from Concordia University. During her time at the district level, Karen led the implementation of Visible Learning+, specifically focusing on teacher clarity, classroom assessment, and feedback. Karen is the co-author of The PLC+ Activators Guide, PLC+: Better Decisions and Greater Impact by Design, and The PLC+ Playbook, Grades K-12. She is currently a full-time professional learning consultant for Corwin.
