I am having fun trying to imagine how Hattie and his colleagues at Visible Learning Labs would make a mashup between Freddie Fiction’s You Tube Video Big Corporation Man and the shake the system ideas in Visible Learning.
Using those multiliteracies to get the message across ...
There is heaps of wiggle room in the lyrics given Hattie’s claim that
In many classrooms and schools, there is evidence of low effect sizes, reliance on poor methods and strategies, a dependence on “war stories” and anecdotes, and an agreement to tolerate different and sometimes poor teaching. We beseech these teachers to be evidence based but so many government agencies and departments, teacher educators, and others are not evidence-based, and seem reluctant to accept evidence if it is contrary to current policies. There is a preference instead to make changes to structural and working conditions. Visible Learning P257
And that
If the criterion of success is achieving effect sizes
greater than 0 then nearly all teachers could be considered effective. But this is a false comparison and assumes
that any achievement is better than none!
Students are more discriminating about teachers ....
Perhaps it is no wonder there is an increasing set of problems relating to student engagement. AS Steinberg, Brown, and Dornbusch (1997) claimed, so many students are “physically present but psychologically absent”(p67). They also cited that about 40 percent of students are “going through the motions” and say they neither try hard nor pay attention. So many cut class and are truant, so many admit to cheating to get through, so many lose interest because they cannot keep up, and so many are bored by the lack of appropriate challenge. So many do not learn that ability is not enough, and effort is critical. About half who do drop out of school claim that classes were not interesting or inviting, and two thirds claim that not one teacher was interested in their success in learning at school (Bridgeland, Dillulio, & Morison, 2006) All is not rosy with teachers, teaching , and schooling. Visible Learning P250
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