After reading Marzano, I feel more in touch with Marzano's reading. Marzano had given objectives on where he wanted to go and what the strategies looked like. His presentation was easy to read and easy to follow. He stated that to be a high performing school system, we must enhance the quality of instruction of all teachers, not just a few. Marzano went through each of his strategies and explained them in great detail. he explained how they could all be used in the classroom with different types of students. Marzano fits well with the Common Core standard in that he breaks down each topic so that students could achieve higher. Each strategy targets a different learning type. Marzano's strategies are as follows:
- Identifying similarities and differences
- Summarizing and note taking
- Questioning by teachers and students
- Chunking learning
- Nonlinguistic representations such as mental images, graphs, acting out content
- Collaborative learning
- Setting objectives and providing feedback on progress
- Generating and testing hypotheses
- Activating prior knowledge via questions, cues, advance organizers
In Hattie's presentation, I felt very confused with his information. There was a lot of numerical information going on. It was not until I put my "statistical" hat on, that I realized we were looking for numbers that had high correlations. Even still, I did not feel like his presentation was well explained to know what all of the information was about. However, he does have some important strategies to use in the classroom. Hattie is also well aligned with the Common Core as his strategies are focused on improving student learning. His strategies focus on the type of instruction in relation to Marzano who seamed to focus more on the type of learning. Hattie's strategies are as follows:
- Self-Assessment and Reflection
- Formative Assessment
- Vocabulary Building
- Problem Solving
- Instructional Quality
- Direct instruction
- Remediation Feedback
- Class environment (culture)
- Challenging yet feasible goals
- Peer tutoring
- Mastery learning
One great strategy to use in the classroom is questioning by teachers and students. Although this was not a particular standard that I focused on, this is something that my school is trying to improve on. We are completing "Learning Walks" this school year and the area of focus in questioning. As teachers, we are always looking for higher order questioning.
These strategies can be used in any classroom with technology integrated. It is important to integrate technology into any classroom. With many schools incorporating BYOD policies into their schools, technology is fast becoming a part of our curriculum and something we need to face.
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