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Nine Best Practices That Make the Difference



March 2014 | 120 pages | Corwin
Through a meta-analysis of studies on instructional strategies, Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock (2001) have identified nine families of strategies that significantly increase student achievement. The results of this meta-analysis point educator to a proven pedagogy with teacher-tested, tried-and-true techniques that work to increase student achievement through cognitive and cooperative efforts.Nine Best Practices That Make the Difference presents research-based instructional ideas that encompass an essential repertoire for beginning and developing teachers as they become skilled professionals. The skills are organized in a 'framework for quality' that includes observable skills in four instructional areas: Creating an Environment for Learning, Teaching the Standards of Learning, Structuring Interactions with Learning, and Reflecting about the Learning.
 
Preface
 
Acknowledgements
 
About This Nutshell Book
 
1. Family of Strategies: Finding Similarities and Differences (1SD)
 
2. Family of Strategies: Summarizing and Note-taking (2SN)
 
3. Family of Strategies: Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition (3RR)
 
4. Family of Strategies: Homework and Practice (4HP)
 
5. Family of Strategies: Nonlinguistic Representations (5NR)
 
6. Family of Strategies: Cooperative Learning (6CL)
 
7. Family of Strategies: Setting Objective and Providing Feedback (7OF)
 
8. Family of Strategies: Generating and Testing Hypotheses (8HG)
 
9. Family of Strategies: Questions and Cues and Advanced Organizers (9QCA)
 
Appendix A: People Search: "Best Practices" That Make the Difference
 
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"Educators will find this an excellent collection of best practices that really work."

The Bookwatch, June 2007

Brian Mitchell Pete

Brian M. Pete, co-founder of Robin Fogarty & Associates, comes from a family of educators-college professors, school superintendents, teachers and teachers of teachers. He has a rich background in professional development. Brian has worked with the adult learner in districts and educational agencies throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand and the GCC in the Middle East.  He has an eye for the “teachable moment” and the words to describe what he sees as skillful teaching. He delivers dynamic, humor-filled sessions that energize the... More About Author

Robin J. Fogarty

Robin Fogarty is President of RFA: A Robin Fogarty Company, a Chicago-based, minority-owned, educational publishing/consulting company. Robin received her doctorate in curriculum and human resource development from Loyola University of Chicago. A leading proponent of the thoughtful classroom, Robin has trained educators throughout the world in curriculum, instruction and assessment strategies.She has taught at all levels, from kindergarten to college, served as an administrator, and consulted with state departments and ministries of education in the United States, Puerto Rico, Russia, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Great Britain,... More About Author

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