This paper outlines the process of the Visible Classroom and uses specific example to demonstrate its potential impact. The Visible Classroom is a program that seeks to explore the potential of real-time captioning and transcription to facilitate the professional development of teachers and students’ engagement in learning. The pedagogical model is based on providing useful real time evaluative feedback for teachers, and fits with models of best teaching practice outlined in “Visible Learning” in Visible Learning (Hattie, 2009). The Melbourne Graduate School of Education, in collaboration with Ai Media, has developed a learning system that provides students with a real time conversion of speech into text on their mobile device to support ‘second and third’ opportunities to learn. The system employs also automated teaching analytics and in-depth coding, which supports greater teacher reflection, evaluation of impact and ultimately, aims to enhance practice. As a result, the mechanism of real time captioning, coupled with in depth feedback provided to teachers facilitates increased student engagement in the learning process, thereby allowing all students to reach their full potential. This paper provides an overview of “The Visible Classroom”: a system of teaching and learning. The program embeds evaluation principles into the model of teaching, by providing teaching analytics and feedback direct to teachers about their practice and impact. The pedagogical model underpinning the system will also be described, and will be supported by the findings of the pilot program conducted in a group of disadvantaged schools across the United Kingdom and was funded by the Education Endowment Foundation.

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