

They will also need speakers and a microphone (or a headset or telephone) to participate in the Blackboard Collaborate Ultra Virtual Meeting sessions. Participants are expected to have regular access to computers with Internet access. This is an advanced level course for teachers, literacy coaches, curriculum specialists, professional development specialists, or other school personnel. Week 7: Determining Impact, Responding When Impact is Insufficient, and Knowing What Does Not Work Prerequisites Week 3: Laying the Groundwork for Visible Learning in Literacy VirtualSC PD courses do not count towards any type of degree. This course is for professional development credit only. This particular book advances the thinking in John Hattie’s Visible Learning Meta-Study (2009) and applies it to the specific context of literacy. The authors review 150 different instructional strategies and rank them according to their demonstrated effect. This course is centered on the text, Visible Learning for Literacy: Implementing the Practices that Work Best to Accelerate Student Learning, which seeks to cut through the myriad theories on instructional practice and figure out what actually accelerates student learning based on research.
