High Yield Strategy: Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition
We’ve been revisiting Marzano’s nine high-yield research-based instructional practices. Today’s practice – Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition – has theContinue Reading
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High Yield Strategy: Summarizing and Note Taking
Last week I began revisiting Marzano’s nine high-yield instructional strategies. Summarizing and note take is one of the nine. Meta-analysisContinue Reading
High Yield Instructional Strategy: Identifying Similarities and Differences
I’m a pedagogy enthusiast, so over my recent quarantine and isolation I revisited Robert Marzano’s classic metaanalysis of high-yield instructionalContinue Reading
Formative Feedback for Deeper Learning
As a middle school and high school choir director, I frequently walked throughout the ensemble during a rehearsal to hearContinue Reading
Practice (With Feedback) Makes Improvement
I’m sure you’ve heard the old adage, “Practice makes perfect.” While it rolls nicely off the tongue, it is notContinue Reading
Providing Students Meaningful Feedback
Instructional feedback for students is essential to their growth, and instructional feedback has been extensively researched over the past severalContinue Reading
Helping Students Actively Engage With Content
Students can sit in a classroom that offers a clear focus, receive masterfully delivered direct instruction, and still not achieve. Continue Reading
Be Direct!
Imagine you are being sent to a large store to pick up a small item. Which of the following twoContinue Reading
Providing a Clear Instructional Focus
My parents meander. As much as I would like to say this is related to their retirement status and notContinue Reading
Helping Students Learn to Strive for Accuracy
Over the past several weekends, I’ve been volunteering my time to help a young couple with a home makeover project. Continue Reading
