Visible Learning: Lesson Planning

In Visible Learning: Lesson Planning, John Hattie and Klaus Zierer make explicit how to implement the world-famous Visible Learning® research into the bedrock of teaching and preparation – lesson planning.

By implementing the Visible Learning® data in everyday teaching, this book provides a practical guide to lesson planning that is unique and objective. Important planning steps are explained and described using example lessons in several different subjects. Success criteria are described, and simple strategies to implement, intervene with, and evaluate lessons effectively are provided including, critically, how to switch from surface to deep learning and back again. This book:

• combines the largest body of empirical educational research to date (now informed by more than 2,100 meta-analyses and implementation in thousands of classrooms globally) with the everyday task of lesson planning
• includes empirical research on teaching and learning as well as theoretical studies on lesson planning
• is orientated toward the phases of analysis, planning, implementation, and evaluation of a lesson
• illustrates theoretical principles and empirical research results using a specific lesson
• provides advice for learners, parents, school administrators, and teachers
• offers numerous opportunities for consolidation through in-depth tasks at the levels of surface understanding and deep understanding
• follows evidence-based criteria for the successful professionalization of teachers

This powerful and essential guide, which includes model plans, exercises, and checklists, will show any school how to implement Hattie’s research to maximize student success.

John Hattie is Emeritus Laureate Professor at the Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia. He is one of the world’s best-known and most widely read education experts, and his Visible Learning series of books have been translated into 29 different languages and have sold over 2 million copies.

Klaus Zierer is Professor of Education at the University of Augsburg, Germany, and Associate Research Fellow of the ESRC-funded Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) at the University of Oxford, UK. He has translated Visible Learning into German and published several works with John Hattie.