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8 Essentials
Research
100
According to Marzano Research Institute, an effective lesson plan should be divided in to 3 of these.
What are  major categories/components?
100
By including this activity in a lesson plan, students will understand how test scores and grades relate to their status in the progression of knowledge they are expected to master.
What is Assessment? 
100
The teacher engages students in activities that help them link what they already know to the new content that is about to be addressed.
What is Preview?
100
Research by Black and William in 1998 shows that formative assessment  has been shown to be very effective at increasing student achievement.
What is tracking student progress?
200
Based on Marzano's Instructional Framework, a good lesson plan should be guided by  10 of them.
What are  design questions?
200
Through this activity, students understand the progression of knowledge that they are expected to master and where they are along that progression. 
What is communicating clear learning goals?
200
The teacher  designs activities to help students deepen their knowledge of informational content or practice a skill, strategy, or process outside of school.
What is Purposeful Homework?
200
Researchers have found that helping students see a direct relationship between how hard they work and how much they learn is an important part of reinforcing effort.
What is Celebrating Success?
300

Based on Marzano's Instructional Framework, a good lesson plan should be guided by 43  of these.

What are elements or categories of strategies?
300
Using assessments is a strategy that falls under this element. 
What is tracking students progress?
300
The teacher provides students an opportunity to collaborate with one another as they learn. 
What is Organizing Students to Interact?
300
Research has shown that students require about four exposures to new information before it becomes integrated into their knowledge base.
What is Reviewing Content?
400
Specific information provided to and from the teacher and the learner  to clarify and guide learning.
What is feedback?
400
One of the desired effect of this strategy is that students demonstrate pride regarding their accomplishments in class.
What is Celebrating Success?
400
The teacher directs students' attention to important information.
What is Highlighting  Critical Information or Content?
400
Philosophers have identified four types of errors in thinking: faulty logic, attack, weak references, and misinformation.  (Johnson-Laird,1983; Johnson-Laird &Byrne, 1991; Toulmin, Rieke, and Janik, 1981).
Helping students examine errors in reasoning
500
  The ways in which the lessons typically progress from direct instruction through use and review of knowledge and skills being learned.
What is content? 
500
A general description of the knowledge and skill that learners are expected to master and  the progression of knowledge or skill that will eventually lead the student to the clear understanding of the new knowledge or ability to apply new skill.
What are Performance or Proficiency Scales?


500
The teachers engages students in activities that help them ponder on what and how they learned.
What is Reflecting on Their Learning?
500
Processing macrostrategies combine several individual research-based strategies ( such as summarizing, questioning, predicting) to help students actively engage with new information) 
What is helping students process new information?