Marzano Ch 4-Reinforcing Effort & Providing Recognition

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

The series continues... Research has shown that people generally attribute success at any given task to one of four causes: 1. Ability – seemingly helpful, but what if you don't believe that you have the requisite skill? In this case, students might sabotage their own success! 2. Effort - what we're hoping for ...

Marzano Ch 3-Summarizing & Note Taking

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Another post in the continuing series of posts on Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement... Generalities from the research on Summarizing: 1. To effectively summarize, students must delete some information, substitute some information, and keep some information. 2. To effectively delete, substitute, and keep information, students must analyze the ...

Marzano Ch 2-Identifying Similarities & Differences

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Most of the rest of the book is a series of chapters which takes one category of strategies at a time. Several chapters have two very similar categories (or, depending on how you look at it, one category that deserves two names). Here is the list of the chapters/categories: Identifying similarities ...

Marzano Ch 1-Intro

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Here begins a series of blog articles that summarize, chapter by chapter, Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement by Robert Marzano, et al. My intention in embarking on this project is to more fully digest the book, examine how I might be able to apply the findings ...