Home | Workshop Descriptions | About Pam Robbins
Articles, Books & Publications | Contact InformationThis session will provide an overview of nine powerful teaching strategies from Classroom Instruction That Works (Marzano, et al., 2001) and will provide an in-depth examination of the top four strategies: compare/contrast/ analogy/metaphor; summarizing and notetaking; effort; homework and practice. The emphasis will be on providing participants with practical, research based strategies that can be used immediately in the classroom. Collectively, the strategies and lessons presented in this session will increase the probability that no child will be left behind in the teaching and learning process.
Participants will have the opportunity to:
- Examine 9 teaching strategies linked to fostering student achievement.
- Practice approaches to using compare, contrast, analogies and metaphors in the classroom as one pursues teaching challenging curriculum standards.
- Analyze a variety of summarizing and notetaking approaches that engage a variety of "intelligences."
- Engage in a simulation to enhance one's understanding of teaching about effort.
- Study purposes of homework and novel ways to increase the probability homework will be completed and returned.
- Discuss the research on practice and generate ways to make practice brain friendly, inviting and fun.
- Reflect upon personal next steps.