Marzano Chapters 1-2
This tool describes the progression of knowledge or skill
What is a scale?
To present content in "digestible bites".
What is Chunking Content?
The stages of procedural knowledge.
What are cognitive, associative and autonomous?
The teacher walks around the room while students work on complex tasks, allowing them to easily request assistance.
What is circulating around the room?
Three strategies to increase response rates.
What are:
Random names, Hand signals, Response cards, Response chaining, Paired response, Choral response, Wait time, Elaborative interrogation, Multiple types of questions?
Status celebration, knowledge gain celebration, and verbal feedback
What are Celebrating Success strategies?
In this strategy, students take notes about the main idea or key details of new content. Students work together and serve as the "recaller" or "listener" to summarize the information.
What are Scripted Cooperative Dyads?
The teacher asks students to state comparisons using like or as.
What are Similes?
These two strategies require students to state claims with the word "because" and to determine if support of a claim is "expert opinion", "research results" or "factual information."
What are Providing grounds and Providing backing?
The teacher speeds up or slows down the pace of the lesson to meet the students' engagement needs.
What is Pace modulation?
Confidence rating techniques, voting techniques, response boards and unrecorded assessments
This strategy involves students placing ideas in a big central circle and then use lines to connect big ideas to smaller circles with important details about each big idea. With this strategy there are multiple subtopics.
What are Free-flowing Webs?
The teacher asks students to find and analyze errors such as confusing facts and misapplying a concept or generalization.
What is identifying errors of misinformation?
What are Previewing Strategies?
What is Humor?
The teacher holds conversations with individual students about a specific topic and then assigns each student a score that depicts his or her knowledge of the subject.
What are Student Interviews?
Marzano states that these should be "well-crafted, polished creations".
What are Direct Instruction lessons?
How will I help students engage in structured practice?
How will I help students examine similarities and differences?
How will I help students examine errors in reasoning?
What are specific planning questions?
The teacher designs activites for students ranging from skits and role playing to hand gestures and other body movements.
What is "using dramatic instruction to convey critical content"?
The teacher chooses two teams to debate opposing sides of a specific policy or issue. Each side gets the opportunity to make an opening arugument, cross-examine the opposing side and present a rebuttal.
The teacher asks students to generate presentations that demonstrate their understanding of a topic.
What are Student Demonstrations?
A technique such as ROY G BIV to help students remember, record and represent critical content.
What are Mnemonic Devices?
Three of the five behaviors observed in students from successful practice sessions.
What are
actively engaging in practice sessions
asking questions about the procedure
increasing competence with the procedure
increasing confidence is abilities to execute procedure
increasing fluency in executing procedure?
This strategy allows students to reflect on specific cognitive skills that the lesson emphasized. Some examples include:classification, inferences, decision making or creative thinking.
What are Think Logs?
What are Interest surveys?