I have used Hattie to understand why my methods are so much more effective than real math teachers. I started with the literature of quality and applied it to math instruction. I have been keeping records for 20 years and every lesson every semester is a better iteration than last year/ last semester. (Sometimes I improved and then rewrote a lesson at lunch time so I could try it out 5th period.) When you add that all up, there have been over 5000 tiny iterations of improvement. I knew it worked (the AGA/Math Lab methodology), but I didn't really understand why. With Hatties' list, I can make the next iteration more focused on what is likely to work.
Very interesting. This is what my gut-feeling has been telling me all along. But now I have another important question. This video was put up 2 years ago. Today is 12 October 2022 and there really hasn’t been a song and dance made about the information contained in this video? Why not? Why does it seem that these findings aren’t being considered when it comes to Hattie’s theory on using Feedback to positively impact on student learning? Why hasn’t someone picked it up and run with it? It’s just that, in Education, Hattie is being promoted on his theories & teacher performance is being judged on teachers’ abilities to put put Hattie’s theories into practice? What if what Hattie claims ist the real truth, what if we’re all barking up the wrong tree. Very concerning.
Thanks for digging into this and pointing these issues out. I’ve always approached Hattie ready for fireworks and found nothing but smoke and mirrors...
The assumption sounds to be: If you give the same curriculum to everyone, everyone will have the same body of knowledge reducing class difference. But, which class of people will determine what everyone needs to know? Wouldn’t the national curriculum itself cultivate class difference based upon those who’ll likely design the curriculum and the knowledge, skills, and understandings which they’ll exclude. At approx 16:00 “there is no black culture.” What? The mind of a child is a white paper. Some of this guy’s conclusion are educated cultural ignorance.