Teaching strategies that have the most positive effects on student learning
Identifying Similarities & Differences Marzano Page 17 visit page• Present students with explicit guidance in identifying similarities and differences
• Asking students to independently identify similarities and differences.
• Representing similarities and differences in graphic or symbolic form enhances students’ understanding of and ability to use knowledge.
Summarizing & Note-Taking Marzano Page 32 visit page• Students must delete some information, substitute some information, and keep some information.
• To effectively do this, students must analyze the information at a fairly deep level.
• Knowledge of the form or structure a piece of information will take is an aid, i.e., typical science chapter organization.
Reinforcing Effort & Providing Recognition Marzano Page 58 visit page• Personalize recognition
• Pause, prompt, and praise
• Concrete symbolic recognition
Homework & Practice Marzano Page 51 visit page• Establish and communicate a homework policy.
• Design homework assignments that clearly articulate the purpose and outcome.
• Vary the approaches to providing feedback.
Non-Linguistics Representations Marzano Page 75 visit page• Create graphic organizers
• Other non-linguistic representations
Cooperative Learning Marzano Page 89 visit page• Define elements to cooperative learning
• Informal, formal & base groups
Setting Objectives & Providing Feedback Marzano Page 95 visit page• Goal Setting: Specific but flexible Use of contracts
• Feedback: Criterion-referenced Corrective Timely Self-feedback
Generating and Testing Hypotheses Marzano Page 106 visit page• Use a variety of structured tasks to guide students through generating & testing hypotheses
• Make sure students can explain their hypotheses & conclusions
Questions, Cues, & Advanced Organizers Marzano Page 114 visit page• Explicit Cues
• Questions that elicit inferences
• Analytic questions