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Making a difference

Wednesday, 20 August 2008 15:15

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What is it that really makes a difference to learning? Is it the teacher? The school? The uniform?
Take a look at the research from John Hattie - you may be surprised.

With a class of 30, sometimes 31 students, I had thought that class size would make the biggest difference. I feel that I could spend more time with individuals, do more resource-heavy lessons and manage poor behaviour better in a smaller class. Research, however tells us otherwise. It is not the school; not the class size; but the student's own motivation and the quality of the teacher that makes the biggest difference to outcomes. Comments?

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