![]() ![]() He engaged in a fifteen-year evaluation of over 50,000 research articles and something like 240 million students - making it the biggest evidence-based education research project ever - and discovered something no one expected and few believed: Almost any approach will work if delivered well. His life’s goal is to determine what education strategies work best for the largest number of students. ![]() That’s when I heard about John Hattie at an education conference I attended and his concept of Visible Learning. John Hattie is a teacher but more significantly, he’s an education researcher. Everything worked for a while and nothing worked in the long term. That includes everything from Common Core to the IB philosophy, from Depth of Knowledge to Project-based Learning. ![]() The same could be said of Standards and curricula adopted in my varied teaching gigs. They all worked for a while and then, maybe when the novelty wore off, I was back to the same Bell curve of successes, failures, and those in between. Standing at the front of the classroom stopped working so I researched (and tried in some cases) Whole Brain Teaching (WBT), Socratic Method, Understanding by Design, Mindfulness, and a lot more options that colleagues mentioned as helpful with their differentiated student groups. Over the years, I’ve struggled to teach in ways my students would understand.
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