Visible Learning

Visible Learning is based on the work of Professor John Hattie (University of Melbourne) who has conducted over 1000 meta analyses of 50,000 educational studies involving students worldwide to identify those instructional practices that work best. According to Hattie Visible Learning and Teaching occurs when teachers see learning through the eyes of students and help them become their own teachers.

In visible learning the teacher is seeking to shift the focus from teaching to learning. WALT (We are learning to) and WILF (What I am looking for) are tools teachers use in their classrooms to encourage students to be more actively involved in their learning. It is used to explicitly highlight to the students what they are being asked to do (WALT = the learning intention) and the steps they need to follow to successfully achieve the learning intention (WILF = the success criteria). This empowers students to set their own learning goals.

Research

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