What Works in Schools- Robert Marzano

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What Works in Schools- Robert Marzano
1. Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum
2. Challenging Goals and Effective
Feedback 3. Parent and Community
Involvement 4. Safe and
Orderly Environment
5. Collegiality and Professionalism



6. Instructional Strategies 7. Classroom
Management 8. Classroom Curriculum Design
9. Home Environment 10. Learned Intelligence/
Background Knowledge 11. Motivation
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works
Classroom Instruction That
Identifying similarities and differences Summarizi
ng and note taking Reinforcing effort and
providing recognition Homework and
practice Nonlinguistic Representations Cooperative
Learning Setting Objectives and Providing
Feedback Generating and Testing Hypotheses Cues,
Questions, and Advance Organizers
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Setting Objectives and Providing
Feedback
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When students know what they are learning, their
performance, on average, has been shown to be 27
percentile points higher than students who do
not know what they are learning.
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The objective is.
I need to learn..
I have to complete this by
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Activities/Assignments
Today Read Chapter 2 in .. Finish Adverb
assignment Work on myth..
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Learning Goals
As a result of what we do today, you will
be able to demonstrate that you
Understand the technique of foreshadowing in
mysteries. Are skilled at finding information
using the Google search engine.
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Activities/Assignments or
Learning Goals?????
Add and subtract fractions Understand the
various components of culture. Make a travel
brochure for a region Make a simple
machine Understand the relationship between
fractions and decimals Write a report on Charles
Dickens Write a book report Design a menu that
includes a balance of foods from the food
pyramid Know states and their capitals
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Name__________________ Date___________________
Assignment____________________________________
Learning Goals Feedback
1.________________________________________________________________ 1 2 3 4 (see rubric)
2.________________________________________________________________ 1 2 3 4 (see rubric)
3.________________________________________________________________ 1 2 3 4 (see rubric)
4.________________________________________________________________ 1 2 3 4 (see rubric)
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Assignment Make a mole from the pattern your are
given. Create an environment/costume for the mole
that plays on the word mole.
Learning Goal Understand the concept of a mole
in chemistry--6.02 x 10 23 Avogadros number
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Aligning Assignments/Assessments with the Clearly
Identified Learning Goals
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Once the Learning Goal is clear,
we can monitor the quality

• To what extent do the Learning Goals address
  essential knowledge?

• Is it likely the assignment/assessment will
  enhance students learning of, or actually
  assess, the knowledge in the Learning Goal?

• Given the Learning Goal, is this assignment worth
  the time?

• Are there aspects of the assignment that would
  require knowledge other than that in the Learning
  Goal? If so, are we teaching that knowledge or
  assuming that knowledge?

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Whats wrong?
Students will demonstrate that they know the
major geographic features of Colorado by making a
cake and decorating it to look like Colorados
topography.
Students will demonstrate their understanding of
the issues related to the Civil War by creating
a Whos Who book of Civil War generals.
Students will be able to demonstrate their
understanding simple machines by building a model
of a miniature golf hole that includes three
simple machines.
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• Learning Objectives
• Students will be able to discuss the election of
  Abraham Lincoln and explain why his election led
  Southern States to secede from the Union.
• Students will be able to explain the significance
  of the Emancipation Proclamation.
• Students will be able to discuss the Battle of
  Gettysburg and Lincolns Gettysburg Address.
• Students will be able to describe the
  assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes
  Booth.

• Have students write a history of Abraham
  Lincolns life, imagining that he had survived
  the assassination attempt by John Wilkes Booth.
  What might Lincoln have accomplished during his
  second term?
• Divide students into groups of three or four to
  design the front page of a newspaper covering an
  event in the program such as the Emancipation
  Proclamation, the Battle of Gettysburg, or the
  assassination of Lincoln.

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Strategy Setting Objectives When I set
objectives, to what extent do I believe that my
students

• Could explain what they are learning,
• Would demonstrate personal interest
  in the learning goals

Not at all To a great
extent 1 2 3 4
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How would you determine if teachers are
effectively setting learning goals?
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What is a Learning Goal?
It identifies what students are going to be
learning, separated from how they are going to
demonstrate the learning.
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Understanding the types of knowledge within
Learning Goals
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KnowgtgtBasic UnderstandinggtgtIn depth
understanding RecallgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtExplain/Repre
sentgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtUse
Terms and Details
Principles, Generalizations, Rules (PGR)
Skills and Processes
Basic skillgtgtgtCompetentgtgtgtAutomaticity/Fluency
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KnowgtgtBasic UnderstandinggtgtIn depth
understanding RecallgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtExplain/Repre
sentgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtUse
Terms and Details
(vocabulary, people, facts, places, events,
titles, etc.)
Colorado has mountains, rivers, and
Mitosis is

George Washington was
World War II was started..
Shakespeare wrote
A
symphony is
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Cultural Literacy -- E.D. Hirsch
1st Graders 2nd Graders
Powhatan Hammurabi Charles Babbage Seven Cities of Cibola Slow rhythms of mosaics
5th Graders 6th Graders
Dred Scott Decision Homers Iliad Prime Meridian Integers The Mercator Projection The Boer Wars
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KnowgtgtBasic UnderstandinggtgtIn depth
understanding RecallgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtExplain/Repre
sentgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtUse
Principles, Generalizations, Rules (PGR)
Water seeks its own level. Topography and natural
resources influence the culture of a
region. Animals have characteristics that are
examples of adaptation. Equations and graphs are
both ways of depicting relationships among
variables. Sentences must begin with a capital
letter and have end punctuation. The key to many
sports skills is follow-through. Charts and
graphs can be constructed in a way that distorts
the information and influences conclusions of the
viewer.
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• Bradley Commission on History in the Schools
• Cultures are diverse yet share the human
  condition.
• Change and stability are equally probable and
  natural.
• The non-rational, irrational, and accidental
  alter history.
• Because of personal characteristics specific
  individuals have made a difference in history,
  positively and negatively.

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KnowgtgtBasic UnderstandinggtgtIn depth
understanding RecallgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtExplain/Repre
sentgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtUse
Skills and Processes Mental and Psychomotor
Reading a bar graph Writing to convey
meaning Dribbling a basketball Typing on a QWERTY
keyboard Adding whole numbers and
fractions Finding absolute location on a map
Mastery
Basic skillgtgtgtCompetentgtgtgtAutomaticity/Fluency
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Topic
Learning Goals
Terms and Details Students will understand that..
Principles, Generalizations, Rules Students will
understand that
Skills and Processes Students will understand
that.. Students will get good at