"Teacher clarity" refers to how well a teacher communicates information and instructions in a clear and understandable way. It means that the teacher provides clear explanations, gives examples, and helps students understand what they need to learn or do.
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Examples
for teacher clarity, learning goals and success criteria: This short video provides a great example for a lesson intended to let students write a good «How - to book».
The role
of teacher clarity has been identified in Visible Learning research as greatly impacting on student learning.
Fendick (1990)
defined Teacher Clarity as the compilation of organizing instruction, explaining content, providing examples, guided practice, and assessment of learning.
Hattie (2009) describes
Teacher Clarity as communicating the learning intentions and success criteria for the learning intentions.
Funneling mastery experiences, vicarious experiences, peer pressure, and emotion into Collective Teacher Efficacy hinges
on Teacher Clarity.
-LSB-...] Teacher clarity (a strategy that can double the create of learning) was and is rudimentary to the success of our multi-year endeavor.
With
teacher clarity in think alouds, we promote comprehension for readers across content areas and text genre.
However,
when Teacher Clarity is present throughout a grade - level, content area, and school, teachers have a greater opportunity to collaborate with peers and address problems of practice.
With an average effect size of 0.75,
teacher clarity results in almost twice the average effect size of one year of formal schooling.
Thus, we as an ILT and a whole - school community began a multi-year-long journey
toward teacher clarity by applying learning targets and success criteria to our classrooms.
Simply put,
teacher clarity means an educator has absolute clarity about what students are to learn, know, and be able to do for an upcoming instructional focus before they plan any instruction and assessments.
Valley View School District in Illinois unpacks data and evidence to
achieve teacher clarity and improve student outcomes.
That doesn't seem to be on the list, but «Teacher Efficacy,» «Teacher Credibility,» and «
teacher Clarity» do appear.
Hattie defines
teacher clarity quoting the (unpublished) work of Fendick (1990) as «organization, explanation, examples and guided practice, and assessment of student learning — such that clarity of speech was a prerequisite of teacher clarity.»
Hattie defines
teacher clarity as «teacher clarity quoting the (unpublished) work of Fendick (1990) as «organization, explanation, examples and -LSB-...]
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teacher clarity.
Hattie defines
teacher clarity as «teacher clarity quoting the (unpublished) work of Fendick (1990) as «organization, explanation, examples and guided practice, and assessment of student learning — such that clarity of speech was a prerequisite of teacher clarity.»
He has found that
teacher clarity has an effect sizes of 0.75 putting it towards the top of his list impactful strategies.
He mentioned, that learning intentions and success criteria add to
teacher clarity.
He defines
teacher clarity as «organisation, explanation, examples and guided practice... of student learning; such that clarity of speech was a prerequisite of teacher clarity.»
Learning intentions and success criteria contribute to
teacher clarity and foster a shared definition of quality work.
There's value in utilizing both learning intentions and success criteria in instruction, as they contribute to
teacher clarity, which has an effect size of 0.75 in terms of lifting achievement.1 Most of us understand that learning intentions and success criteria are related, but we may not be able to articulate the characteristics of each.
So with no where else to go, we turned our attention back to Visible Learning and found our answer in Hattie's emphasis on
teacher clarity.