EDU 512 Reading Notes Format:

Name: Kathryn Woon

Book Title: Visible Learning for Literacy
Chapter Number and Title: Chapter 1 - Laying the Groundwork
Application 1:
Teacher Expectations: (Effect Size 0.43) Teachers set a goal for students to reach by the end
of the year, quarter, or week. Expectations can be tied to learning objectives. According to
Visible Learning for Literacy, teachers get what they expect whether they set high or low
expectations. Teachers’ expectations of students become reality for students. Teachers must
be careful to set healthy expectations for their students to achieve.
Application to your work/learning:
As I write lesson plans, it is important that I have the end goal in mind so that I know the
direction where I desire my students to grow. I must be careful to set proper expectations
throughout my lesson planning in order to avoid expectations that are unachievable. My
struggle would be to place proper attention to single concepts without over-planning too
much content per lesson.

Application 2:
Self-Efficacy: “The confidence or strength of belief that we have in ourselves that we can
make our learning happen” (Hattie 45, 2012). Students need to be grown in confidence so
that they can take on the tasks and challenges placed in front of them within and outside the
classroom. Students with low self-efficacy may struggle with completing or avoiding complex
tasks, week commitment to goals, seeing failure as a personal deficiency, and a slower
recovery for self-confidence after setbacks.
Application to your work/learning:
One of the goals of my lesson planning is to allow students to grow in their confidence to
approach new challenges set before them. Rather than allowing my students to approach new
concepts on their own, my goal for direct instruction is to introduce strategies to students so
that they can learn how to manipulate the information in the lesson for deep learning.

Application 3:
Learning Intentions with Success Criteria: Teachers communicate learning objectives to
students so that they will be able to identify the topic they are learning and why that topic is
important. One of the ways to measure success criteria is to ask three key questions: 1) What
am I learning today? 2) Why am I learning this? How will I know that I learned it?
Application to your work/learning:
As I create my learning objectives, I need to write them in a way that students can
understand in their own words. I need to be careful to make my learning objectives academic
but accessible to my students so that they can assess their understanding.