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Over the recent holiday break, I broke out another classic Marzano work and began rereading. Classroom Management That Works takes the same meta-analytic approach that was used in Classroom Instruction That Works and examines extant research literature to determine which classroom management activities show a significant effect size. Marzano cites one of the earliest studies
Better Teaching Today is changing. Over the next few weeks, you may notice some changes to this site as it grows into its new form. It will become Better Today. Thank you for joining me on this journey.
Perhaps it’s the New Year and all the traditions that go along with it, but I spent a tremendous amount of time over the holiday break reflecting on where we have been and recapturing the vision for our schools. In the past five years, we have made tremendous strides toward improving curriculum and learning in
In the last six months, I have been to two escape rooms. I really didn’t think I would enjoy them as much as I do. If you’ve never been, the premise is simple: you and your team enter a room full of clues that help you unlock a treasure or reward of some sort during
If you conduct a Google search regarding “hypothesis generation,” in less than a second you will have access to 154,000,000 links to articles and examples of such activity. That may make you think that the generation and testing of hypotheses is far too great a task to undertake in your classroom. Rest assured, it isn’t.
There exists a rich body of literature regarding the importance of gratitude and its positive impact on our overall well being, and sometimes it is difficult to translate all of this knowing about gratitude into doing gratitude. In the article 10 Ways to Be a More Thankful Person, author Andrea Uptmor shares the following ways
My household is a place where food is important (as you can probably attest by my girth). Each weekend, we plan a menu for the upcoming week. Based upon that menu, we prepare a list of grocery needs. I write the grocery list down, and many times I write the list based upon departments and
We’ve been revisiting the nine research-based high-yield instructional practices identified in Marzano’s Classroom Instruction That Works. As teachers, we know the power of collaboration based upon our PLC successes and based upon the focus we placed on collaboration just a few years ago. According to Marzano and his team, the meta-analysis shows that cooperative learning
In the now classic book Classroom Instruction That Works, Marzano finds through meta-analysis that students who regularly have opportunities to create nonlinguistic representations of current and new knowledge increase achievement. The effect size attributed to this strategy is .75 ((please remember that the effect size is the increase in student achievement as measured in standard
Homework is a hotly debated and often researched topic among educators. There seems to be a rather significant divide at times regarding whether or not it really makes a difference for students. Today’s writing is not intended to swim into those deep waters. Instead, today we will continue to move forward with our review of
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