Helping Students Record and Represent Knowledge
Recording and representing knowledge is a powerful instructional strategy that is essential for your students’ acquisition, organization, and retention of content knowledge.
~ Dr. Robert Marzano and Ria Schmidt
Desired Effect
Students accurately record and represent knowledge creating a variety of artifacts which organize and summarize the critical content..
Purpose
This summarization is crucial as it is often a prerequisite to the next chunk of new content to be learned. Reviewing a student's written or visual summarization can also be a powerful formative assessment that allows the teacher to address learning gaps before moving on to the next chunk of new content.
It is important that when students are engaged in those tasks that they are recording their own understanding of the information rather than just repeating what the teacher provided.
Teacher Evidence for Recording and Representing Knowledge
Student Evidence for Recording and Representing Knowledge
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