Student Agency through Visible Learning
Today's professional learning focused on the importance of visible learning. The visibility and clarity of the learning, demystify the learning process, and enable many opportunities for accessing learning with a choice as well as rewindable opportunities. Today, although not new learning it was valuable to articulate, rethink, and focus on the importance of visible learning for all students. The power lies in the visibility for whanau and the absolute agency for learners who are able to navigate sites on their own.
Teachers who make sites available are able to teach small groups knowing that agency can be strong as learners chose to scaffold, prepare for, and extend their learning. Visible, rewindable learning can be accessed anywhere and students and teachers who are absent know that authentic learning is still possible.
Jamboard was a new planning tool that has value when thinking through what needs to be included when teaching the big themes or ideas within concepts and selecting multi-modal options before creating the site.
The Woolf Fisher research team has talked about high leverage practices such as collaboration, authentic texts and critical thinking. Today we looked at the elements within the T Shaped Literacy Practices. We have focused on critical thinking but the specific planning under the following headings makes planning more deliberate when selecting tools and texts for differentiation within sites for reading:
- Scaffolding
- Challenge
- Complimentary
- Student Choice
New learning was also to think about ensuring the systems are in place within our setting for blogger and dealing with comments and archiving appropriately for all including if a teacher leaves. The teaching and learning are completely visible and the other school matters we have discussed as private.
There are many resources to access which compliment the learning today to support. Thanks team.
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