Learning and Teaching at St Brigid's
On Monday 31st January, our staff joined online with those from St. Alipius, Ballarat East and St Michael’s, Daylesford to participate in a professional learning day facilitated by Corwin Australia. This day launched the second year of a three year commitment where we will focus on Visible Learning. One way to think about Visible Learning is children taking ownership of their own learning.
Visible Learning is the result of the research undertaken by John Hattie to understand what provides the most success in learning. It is based on over 68,000 studies and 25 million students.
Our Visible Learning overarching goals for this year include:
- Continuing to develop a shared understanding of the type of learners our school is aspiring to have through learning dispositions, explicitly teach these and provide opportunities for students to reflect on them regularly;
- Share assessment information with students, and provide processes and opportunities for students to articulate where they are at in their learning, how they are progressing and their next steps;
- Develop the use of success criteria in learning to provide challenge for all learners and make these visible to learners throughout the lesson;
- Continue to articulate a clear picture of the type of feedback culture and practice our school aspires to have, linking feedback to the use of learning intentions and success criteria and making this visible to learners.
We look forward to sharing our Visible Learning journey with you this year!