The Marzano Center Essentials for Achieving Rigor 10-book series, authored by Dr. Robert J. Marzano and his team of highly skilled education experts at Learning Sciences International, provides practical, easy-to-implement techniques that educators can use immediately in their classrooms. Instructional guides help educators become highly skilled at implementing, monitoring, and adapting instruction. Put it to practical use immediately, adopting day-to-day examples as models for application in your own classroom. The series includes, Examining Similarities & Differences; Identifying Critical Content; Examining Reasoning; Recording & Representing Knowledge; Revising Knowledge; Processing New Information; Engaging in Cognitively Complex Tasks; Practicing Skills, Strategies, & Processes; Creating & Using Learning Targets & Performance Scales; and Organizing for Learning.
Classroom Techniques to Help Students Interact Within Small Groups
Can your students actively process content in groups? Academic standards call for increased rigor, but simply raising complexity is not enough. Students need to be able to interact productively within a small-group setting. As teachers become better at planning and providing practice sessions that build these skills, students become more adept at participating in structured grouping, peer response groups, paired practice, partner discussions, and reflecting on learning as part of a group. Organizing for Learning: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Interact Within Small Groups explores explicit techniques for mastering this crucial strategy of instructional practice. It includes: Explicit steps for implementation Recommendations for monitoring students' ability to process content in groups Adaptations for students who struggle, have special needs, or excel in learning Examples and nonexamples from classroom practice Common mistakes and ways to avoid them The Essentials for Achieving Rigor series of instructional guides helps educators become highly skilled at implementing, monitoring, and adapting instruction. Put it to practical use immediately, adopting day-to-day examples as models for application in your own classroom.
Classroom Techniques to Help Students Engage with Content
Can your students encode critical information into their long-term memories? Academic standards call for increased rigor, but simply raising complexity is not enough. Students must also know how to retrieve critical information and comprehend key features of the content. Teachers must strategically impart the skills students need to authentically engage with content so they can effectively process the learning and store it for future use. Processing New Information: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Engage With Content explores explicit techniques for mastering a crucial strategy of instructional practice: processing new information. It includes: Explicit steps for implementation Recommendations for monitoring if students are able to process new information Adaptations for students who struggle, have special needs, or excel in learning Examples and nonexamples from classroom practice Common mistakes and ways to avoid them The Essentials for Achieving Rigor series of instruction
Processing New Information: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Engage With Content explores explicit techniques for mastering a crucial strategy of instructional practice: processing new information.
