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Identifying Critical Content
"This strategy is integral to helping your students understand new knowledge, make connections to prior learning, and ultimately retain new content."
~ Senn, Rutherford, and Marzano (2014)
Desired Effect
Students can identify the critical and non-critical components of the concept (standard) while understanding how the concept builds in complexity as they learn.
Purpose
By highlighting the information that is critical, students will be able to actively engage in the learning process and have a deeper understanding of the content.
Each learning goal should have 2-3 critical-input experiences that provide focus for the teacher and the students. These experiences should utilize a variety of learning modalities and be fast-paced and engaging to help anchor the information in memory. Identifying critical content is one strategy that you can’t live without!
Teacher Evidence for Identifying Critical Content
Student Evidence for Identifying Critical Content
- Highlights critical content giving students a clear progression of the information.
- Links the critical content to the standards.
- Identifies differences between the critical and non-critical content.
- Continuously calls students' attention to accurate critical content.
- Integrates cross-curricular connections to critical content.
- Content vocabulary is being taught.
- Describe the level of importance of the critical content.
- Identify the critical content addressed in class.
- Identify the level on the learning scale the critical content applies.
- Explain the difference between critical and non-critical.
- Explain the progression of the critical content.
- Utilize the content vocabulary when discussing the critical content.
Scale
Monitoring Strategies to Move to Applying
- Students restate the critical information after I have explained it.
- Students explain the difference between what information is absolute and what information is not absolute.
- Students can identify their depth of understanding with the critical content.
- Students ask questions about the critical content.
Monitoring Strategies
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