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Helping Students Revise Kanowledge
The biggest mistake you can make in your implementation of revising knowledge is to forget whose knowledge needs to be revised.
~ Dr. Robert Marzano and Ria Schmidt
Desired Effect
Students can examine, explain, and revise previous content by correcting errors and misconceptions to deepen their understanding.
Purpose
- As students interact with new knowledge, they begin to make partial sense of the content. To deepen understanding, learners experience extended exposure to the content over time, which sharpens and adds to their knowledge base. When students add and clarify their learning of new content, they should engage in revision activities to record additional information as well as correct errors and clarify distinctions from previous understanding of the content.
- Revising knowledge to help students examine their deeper understanding of critical content and essential learning is a very important step in the learning process for all learners in all contexts.
- Even as adults, we are constantly evaluating what we know, what new learning was just presented to us, and how this new learning changes the newer reality. In other words, based on what I just learned "What do I know now?"
- This is not a new concept. Educational researchers call this a constructive approach to learning.
- Students construct their learning by connecting what they already know to the new learning just presented and develop a new and deeper learning. This is ultimately the revised and deeper learning that students have moving forward.
Teacher Evidence for Helping Students Revise Knowledge
Student Evidence for Helping Students Revise Knowledge
- Asks students to examine previous entries in their notebooks or notes to correct errors or misconceptions.
- Asks students to add new information based on errors and misconceptions.
- Has students explain how their understanding has changed.
- Guides students to identify alternative ways to execute procedures.
- Make corrections and/or additions to information previously recorded about content.
- Explain previous errors or misconceptions they had about content.
- Demonstrate a growth mindset by self-correcting errors as knowledge is revised.
- Demonstrate alternative ways to execute procedures through revisions.
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5 Steps to Revising Learning
- Review/revisit prior understanding of content
- Identify and correct mistakes or misconceptions
- Self identify gaps in knowledge and fill in those gaps
- Decide where to amend the learning
- Explain the reason for the revision to the learning
Strategies to Revise Knowledge
Non-Examples of this Element
- Failing to provide opportunities for student to revise their learning
- Not requiring students to revise their own learning (not a routine event)
- Asking students to simply re-read a text
- Confusing review as revision
- Failure to monitor the changes in learning (effective implementation must include the teacher monitoring for the desired effect)
- Failure to ensure that the revised knowledge is correctly understood.
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