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10 Steps to Develop Great Learners

Visible Learning for Parents

First Edition
By: John Hattie, Kyle Hattie, Shane Safir

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781071886991
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2022
Page Count: 0
Publication date: March 31, 2022

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Description

What can parents and caregivers do to ensure their children develop great learning habits that will help them achieve their maximum at school and in life? This is probably one of the most important questions any parent can ask, and now John Hattie, one of the most respected and renowned education researchers in the world, draws on his globally famous Visible Learning research to provide some answers.

Writing this book with his son Kyle, himself a respected teacher, the Hatties offer a 10-step plan to nurture curiosity and intellect and provide a home environment that encourages and values learning. These simple steps, based on the strongest of research evidence and packed full of practical advice, can be followed by any parent or caregiver to support and enhance learning and maximize the potential of their children. Areas covered include:

Communicating effectively with teachers
Being the ‘first learner’ and demonstrating openness to new ideas and thinking
Choosing the right school for your child
Promoting the ‘language of learning’
Having appropriately high expectations and understanding the power of feedback

Anyone concerned with the education and development of our children should read this book. For parents, it is an essential guide that could make a vital difference to your child's life. For schools, school leaders, and educators, this is a book you should be encouraging every parent to read to support learning and maximize opportunities for all.

Author(s)

John Hattie

John Hattie, PhD, is an award-winning education researcher and best-selling author with nearly thirty years of experience examining what works best in student learning and achievement. His research, better known as Visible Learning, is a culmination of nearly thirty years synthesizing more than 2,100 meta-analyses comprising more than one hundred thousand studies involving over 300 million students around the world. He has presented and keynoted in over three hundred international conferences and has received numerous recognitions for his contributions to education. His notable publications include Visible Learning, Visible Learning for Teachers, Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn; Visible Learning for Mathematics, Grades K-12; and 10 Mindframes for Visible Learning.

Kyle Hattie

Kyle Hattie is a Year 6 Teacher at Harvest Primary school (1000 students in north Melbourne). He has taught at all levels of primary school in NZ and Victoria, specialised in innovative learning environments, and was an acting Assistant Principal of Stonefields in Auckland. He is elected into the Exemplary Teaching Program, has been a Learning Specialist, and coordinated teachers in “The nature of learning” project to identify students and teachers conceptions of learning, leading a team in developing the school’s 7 Learning Dispositions, and now integrating into the schools model of teaching and learning. He has been published in passion projects, and the nature of learning, and recently co-authored (with John Hattie) 10 Steps to Developing Great Learners.

Shane Safir

Shane Safir has worked at every level of the education system for the past 25 years, with an unwavering commitment to racial justice and deep learning. After teaching in San Francisco and Oakland, California and engaging in community organizing to launch a new public high school, Shane became the founding principal of June Jordan School for Equity (JJSE), an innovative national model identified by scholar and policy leader Linda Darling-Hammond as having “beaten the odds in supporting the success of low-income students of color.” For over a decade, Shane has provided equity-centered leadership coaching, systems transformation support, and professional learning for schools, districts, and organizations across the U.S. and Canada. She writes for Edutopia, Ed Week, Educational Leadership magazine and is the author of The Listening Leader: Creating the Conditions for Equitable School Transformation (Jossey-Bass: 2017). Shane is thrilled to co-author this book with Dr. Jamila Dugan, a long-time collaborator who conducted foundational research for The Listening Leader and facilitates equity workshops with Shane, as well as Carrie Wilson, a colleague whose groundbreaking program for teacher-driven inquiry centers street data in the pursuit of equity.

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