Homework and Practice

Cooperative Grouping

Should be an aspect of lesson planning; should

not be assigned as an afterthought
Time required to complete the assignment
should be appropriate for grade level; grade
level x 10 mins.
Teacher should provide feedback in a timely
manner; instructive feedback has the greatest
effect on learning
Should be assigned to help foster good learning
and study habits; students learn more with
fewer concepts examined at a deeper level
Students should be able to complete
assignments without little to no assistance; if
not, teacher should reevaluate the assignment
Parents are faciliators and should refrain from
doing the student's work for them

Students work in groups to help each other

learn; learner centered strategy
Provides students the oppurturnity to
applaud each other's successes and effort;
emphasizing cooperation rather than
competition
Teaches students individual and group
accountability
Facilitates the development of
communication skills, trust, leadership
skills, decision making, and conflict
resolution

Advance Organizers
Engages and allows organization of
information in a way that fosters
information retention and re call
Enables learner to make connections
(before, during, and after) to content
under study; ex. KWL Chart
Allows verfication of their own thinking
at higher levels of inquiry by recording,
asking, and predicting

Marzano's
6
Instructional
Strategies

Nonlingustic Representations/
Graphic Organizers
Effective teachers incorporate the three
styles of learning, visual, auditory, and
kinestetic (whole-body mode), in the
classroom to ensure the success of all
students
When facilitated by the teacher, student
achivevement is strong and there is an
increase in student brain activity during the
creation of non-linguistic representations
Information in the imagery format is stored
with the focus on mental pictures or even
physicial sensations , such as smell, taste,
touch, kinesthetic association, and sound

Simiaries and Differences

Cues and Questions

Teachers ask higher order thinking questions
requiring students to analyze informatio
Asking higher order thinking questions results in
more learning than asking students to recall
information (lower order thining questions)
Can be used in conjunction with advanced
organziers to inform teacher of what students
already know, retrieve the students prior
knowledge, and ultimately expand students
schema

Students benefit by direct instruction in

identifying similarities and differences
After direct instruction, students will
independently see patterns and
connections
Teachers are responsible for fostering
that the classroom is a community of
understanding, inclusiveness, and
cultrural tolerance
Teachers should be aware of their own
cultural compentecy and have an
understanding of cultural differences to
help their ELL students as well as all the
students in their classroom