The Most Bang For the Buck Strategies that Work Sally Beck 1/19/11 Literacy Session
IOU Snacks because I’ve gone brain dead Please help yourself to a drink
Classroom Instruction That Works by Marzano and Pickering Used meta-analysis to determine effect size of instructional strategies Goal – to identify strategies that work BEST in helping students learn Example of data helping in development of instruction
The Numbers show Categories Average Effect Size Percentile Gain Similarity and Differences 1.61 45 Summarizing & Note-taking l.00 34 Effort and Recognition* .80 29 Homework and Practice .77 28 Nonlinguistic Representation .75 27
And furthermore….. Category Average Effect Size Percentile Gain Group Learning .73 27 Objectives & Feedback .61 23 Hypotheses Questions, Cues and Advance Organizers .59 22
So let’s aim for the top! Use question stems that require HOTS Start with Similarities and Differences
Similarities & Differences Include Compare/Contrast Classifying Metaphors Analogies
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