John Hattie

Horses for courses

September 2, 2016

Embed from Getty Images Just as there are “different horses for different courses” so there are different learning strategies for different stages of the learning process A recent article by John Hattie and Gregory Donoghue (2016) uses meta-analyses, effect sizes and a more nuanced model of surface and deep understanding to look at learning strategies […]

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A Forward Foreword

January 7, 2016

John Hattie has written an awesome foreword for my first publication in 2016. I am starting 2016 with the launch of “SOLO-taksonomien i praksis” published by Dafolo, so John’s fabulous foreword is taking the classroom based use of SOLO Taxonomy forward into the new year. An English version of the foreword will be added to […]

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The IKEA effect and teacher inquiry

November 7, 2013

This week I have been developing a series of twenty six SOLO rubrics for exploring the Professional Standards for Primary Principals in New Zealand – rubrics for professional competencies around Culture, Pedagogy, Systems and Partnerships and Networks. I am quite pleased with the first draft thinking. I especially like how I have been able to […]

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How to introduce SOLO Taxonomy

July 22, 2013

Introducing a school community to SOLO Taxonomy (Biggs and Collis 1982) is a little like squeezing yourself into a Captain Kirk onesie and imagining yourself standing on the deck of the Enterprise. “Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek […]

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Feel the burn: Give yourself a SOLO cognitive workout

June 26, 2013

Nicola Richards (a fabulous PE educator in Christchurch) and I recently co-authored the latest SOLO resource – this one supports teachers charged with helping students think more deeply in movement contexts in physical education. Our typescript has gone to the publishers but the ideas around movement contexts remain firmly lodged in cracks and crevices in […]

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