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32 Research-Based Instructional Strategies - 32 Research-Based Instructional Strategies by TeachThought Staff You want to teach with what’s been proven to work.

32 Research-Based Instructional Strategies -

That makes sense. In the ‘data era’ of education that’s mean research-based instructional strategies to drive data-based teaching, and while there’s a lot to consider here we’d love to explore more deeply, for now we’re just going to take a look at the instructional strategies themselves. A post is not the best way to share this kind of information, honestly.

But upside to sharing this information as a post is that it can act a starting point to research the above, which is why we’ve tried to include links, related content, and suggested reading for many of the strategies, and are trying to add citations for all of them that reference the original study that demonstrated that strategy’s effectiveness. How should you use a list like this? “In lieu of any problems, this much data has to be useful. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Edutopia finley 53 ways to check understanding 2016. 10 Fun-Filled Formative Assessment Ideas. Marzano's 9 Instructional Strategies In Infographic Form. Marzano’s 9 Instructional Strategies In Infographic Form by TeachThought Staff In education, louder than the call for innovation, engagement, thought, or self-direction is the call to be research-based.

Marzano's 9 Instructional Strategies In Infographic Form

In fact, being research-based may even trump being data-based, the two twins of modern ed reform. The former stems, in part, from deserved skepticism of trends that have little evidence of performance, and the latter comes from a similar place. The big idea behind the both is “proof”–having some kind of confidence that what we’re doing now works, and that because of both data and research, we can more or less nail down what exactly it is that we’re doing that works or doesn’t work, and why. To be clear, being data or research-based isn’t anywhere close to fool-proof. But this is all way, way beside the point–a long-winded contextualizing for Robert Marzano’s work. And so Dr. Marzano’s 9 Instructional Strategies Marzano’s 9 Instructional Strategies In Infographic Form.

Dialogue Defibrillators: Jump-Start Classroom Discussions! During a 12th-grade English discussion years ago, I asked a question that nobody answered.

Dialogue Defibrillators: Jump-Start Classroom Discussions!

Wanting students to do more heavy academic lifting, I decided to wait until someone spoke before saying another word. A minute crept by. The class fidgeted while I waited. Ninety tense seconds passed. Students' faces registered confusion and frustration at my brinkmanship. 8 Issues and Remedies We've all experienced whole-class discussions where students don't play along. 1. Sometimes students don't respond to a prompt because it's either too complex, ill-structured, or inaudible. To begin, I describe all the things I don't understand: Why do electrons change behaviors when they are observed? Nobody, I say, is expected to know everything. "Would you please. . . . . . state the question in a different way?

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