WAB Learns: Visible Learning: High Impact Teaching Strategies (HITS): Visible Learning

Learning at WAB is a transformative process which is intentional and iterative, challenging and joyful and serves an authentic purpose.

Draft: High-Impact Teaching in IB MYP-DP
This booklet outlines key findings from Hattie's Visible Learning: The Sequel, contextualised for high-impact teaching and learning in MYP and DP. Connections with inquiry, IB ATTL and PZ, with examples.

The Big Ideas of Visible Learning

Climate First, Learning Second, Achievement Third: A positive, inclusive classroom climate lays the foundation for deeper learning and higher achievement.
Students Driving Their Learning: Empowering students with clarity, ownership, and self-assessment encourages engagement.
Know Thy Impact: Teachers assess their strategies to focus on what truly improves student progress.
Collective Responsibility: A whole school community works together to ensure student success through collaboration and shared accountability.

From: About Visible Learning
Visible Learning (Hattie) and Making Thinking Visible (Ritchhart) are not the same thing...
... but they are complementary. Increasingly, Visible Learning evidence shows strong connections the power of Creating a Culture of Thinking through the Understanding Map, the Eight Forces and Visible Thinking Routines. See the extensive PZ guide here.

Visible Learning MetaX Database

The Visible Learning MetaX Database allows you to search for strategies, showing the impact of each and the studies that were included in the meta-analyses. Some strategies are named in counter-intuitive ways, so be sure to read what they are as you interpret them.