Instructional Strategies Module

Complete this module by reading about Marzano and other educators who developed instructional strategies

1. Copy/paste the strategies [here] into your site. Label the page "Instructional Strategies"

2. On a different page, copy/paste these strategies [here] into your site. Label the page "More Instructional Strategies"

3. Learn about Marzano strategies [here] as a foundation to current research-based instruction. Label the page "Marzano Strategies"

Robert J. Marzano is a speaker, trainer, and educational researcher in the United States. He has done educational research and theory on the topics of standards-based assessment, cognition, high-yield teaching strategies, and school leadership, including the development of practical programs and tools for teachers and administrators in K-12 schools.

Marzano is co-founder and CEO of Marzano Research Laboratory in Centennial, Colorado. In 2012, the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences created the Regional Educational Laboratory (Central) at the Marzano Research Laboratory, one of ten similar laboratories across the United States. Marzano was named executive director.

Marzano has identified three areas central to school improvement reforms: fostering and sustaining system-wide teaching strategies; providing effective feedback to students; and building a strong student academic vocabulary.

In Classroom Instruction That Works (2001), Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock outlined nine instructional strategies likely to improve student achievement across all grade levels and subject areas [save this pdf here in your lesson plan folder in the jumpdrive]. These included:

1. Identifying similarities and differences.

2. Summarizing and note taking.

3. Reinforcing effort and providing recognition.

4. Homework and practice.

5. Non-linguistic representations.

6. Cooperative learning.

7. Setting objectives and providing feedback.

8. Generating and testing hypotheses.

9. Cues, questions, and advance organizers.

Use after reading the above Effective Instructional Strategies 2013.ppt 

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Assignments:

1.  Copy/paste the image into your Google site

2.  Download the image.  Upload it into Livetext in a page and section labeled Marzano

3.  Copy/paste the 9 Marzano Strategies into Livetext

Print or view the attached literacy strategies.  Decide which graphic organizers that you would assign your students to improve learning outcomes.  

Active listening

Use this website [here] to convert any pdf file to word and copy to include in your booklet.

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Assignment

1.  Copy/paste the image into the Google site and Livetext (download, save, then upload)

2.  Paste the booklet you created into the Google site and Livetext

3.  Download the attached documents.  Attach them in Google site and Livetext  

Strategic Teaching Assignment

 Critical and creative thinking is very important in your subject area.  The quality of your work should reflect level of understanding of your content area then convey expectations and learning outcomes for your students.  Spelling, grammar, word choice, and organization are essential.  The library, online library, and the internet has numerous resources to help you develop age-appropriate, content-specific, and expected outcomes material.

Making connection between High Rigor and High Mastery is essential engaging students throughout the class period.  Notice the table below to determine how your assignments fall within the context of rigor and mastery.

Address key areas when creating assignments for your students by following the Standards for Mathematical Practice in the core of mathematical learning.

1) Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

2) Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

3) Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

4) Model with mathematics.

5) Use appropriate tools strategically.

6) Attend to precision.

7) Look for and make use of structure.

8) Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Assignments

1. Use the 10 Lesson Plans in this to construct an assignment identifying the standards from the ALCOS content area.

2. Modify the lesson plans using higher order questioning techniques to engage students.

3. From the four levels of practice (the continuum of Emerging, Applying, Integrating, and Innovating) [EDUCATEAlabama Rubric(1).pdf], which serve as the means for identifying your current practice.  Indicate why, how you can reach the next level.  Be descriptive using activities and strategies that you may implement. Save the document in Google site and Livetext.

4.  Copy/paste the graphic and 8 items into your Google site and Livetext Portfolios in a page and section labeled "Effective Teaching Strategies"

 Before, During and After Instructional Strategies

Assignment

1.  Copy/paste the above diagram into your portfolio sections labeled Effective Strategies

2.  Find images or pdf files to represent 10 of the graphic organizers above

3.  Develop a mini action research project to guide your students for each assignment/lesson plan to follow for the duration of the course.

4.  Make a Prezi [here] of the images or pdf using screencaptures. Use the powerpoint Instructional Strategies ATS.ppt  show what a product looks. You may need to use screencapture and crop [click here for directions] for the powerpoint.  Save the Prezi link in the eportfolios in Livetext.  Advance techniques [here] for powerpoint crop feature

 Use the critical areas of focus (focal points) in all grades to consider how to:

• Focus instruction on the big ideas at a grade level. Rather than teaching standards and individual assignments, consider joining assignments together to enrich the critical areas of focus or varying learning levels.

• Understand the learning progressions. Make connections between the assignments that build on one another as like in this course.  Consider how the learning in one grade builds on the learning that is expected in the previous year and builds toward the next year. This is how vertical planning teams use the critical areas of focus to develop strategies and activities to target weak areas within the entire school.

Quick Flip Questions for Critical Thinking

This little book has been around since 1994 [here] printed by EDUPRESS but here is a word format [here] that you can download to use during this module.

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Assignment

1.  Copy/paste the word document into each of the e-portfolios in a page and section labeled Quick Flip Questions for Critical Thinking

2. Save the document into each of the e-portfolios

Writing Objectives Using Bloom's Taxonomy

Bloom’s Taxonomy divides the way people learn into three domains. One of these is the cognitive domain, which emphasizes intellectual outcomes. This domain is further divided into categories or levels. The key words used and the type of questions asked may aid in the establishment and encouragement of critical thinking, especially in the higher levels. [here for the website]  Click [here] for the pdf.

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Assignment

1.  Copy/paste the Bloom's Taxonomy page from the link into the eportfolios in a section labeled Bloom's Taxonomy. Give credit to the webpage by posting "Adapted from The Center of Teaching and Learning-UNC Charlotte"

2.  Google Bloom's Taxonomy to place several graphics in your e-portfolios (be creative)

3. Save the pdf file into your eportfolios

Put Reading First [here] describes the rudimentary reading strategies for early and elementary learners.  Read the brochure/pamphlet to get understanding how pre-secondary learners transmit reading practices into contextual knowledge.

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How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom [here]