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DQ2: Helping Students Interact with New Knowledge 6. Identifying Critical Information 7. Organizing Students to Interact with New Knowledge 8. Previewing New Content 9. Chunking Content into Digestible Bite 10. Processing New Information 11. Elaborating on New Information 12. Recording and Representing New Knowledge 13. Reflecting on Learning Figure 11. Percentile Percentile Gain for Gain Specific for Specific Instructional Instructional Strategies (Corrected) Strategies* Source: Mata-Analytic Synthesis of Studies Conducted ay Marzano Research Laboratory on Instructional Strategies (Haystead & Marzano, 2009). This report synthesizes a series of quasi- experimental studies conducted as action research projects regarding the extent to which the utilization of selected instructional strategies enhances the learning of students. The data used for analysis can be found in Marzano Research Laboratory s Meta- Analysis Database (see marzanoresearch.com). Interpretation 1 There are a number of ways to interpret an effect size. One interpretation is the amount of overlap between the experimental and control groups. Consider again that an effect size of 1.00 can be interpreted as the average score in the experimental group being one standard deviation
6. Identifying Critical Information Why Identify Critical Information?! A number of cognitive psychologists offer support for the position that teachers must provide guidance as to the important aspects of the new content (Anderson Greeno, Reder & Simon 2000).! Nuthall s work suggests that those learning experiences that are critical to understanding new content should be identified and highlighted by teachers.!!! The teacher identifies a lesson or part of a lesson as involving important information to which students should pay particular attention. Teacher begins the lesson by explaining why upcoming content is important Teacher tells students to get ready for some important information Teacher cues the importance of upcoming information in some indirect fashion Tone of voice Body position Level of excitement When asked, students can describe the level of importance of the information addressed in class When asked, students can explain why the content is important to pay attention to Students visibly adjust their level of engagement Source: (choose Marzano Protocol: one) Lesson Segment Addressing Content, DQ2. Adapts and creates new The School District of Palm Beach strategies County, for FL unique student needs and situations. Signals to students which content is critical versus noncritical and monitors the extent to which students are 2 Signals to students which content is critical versus noncritical. Uses strategy Strategy was incorrectly or with called for but not parts missing. Single School Culture exhibited. for Academics
7. Organizing Students to Interact with New Knowledge 7. Organizing Students to Interact with New Knowledge! Students interacting in groups about the content! Allows students to experience content from multiple perspectives! Facilitates the learning of complex procedures and concepts NOTE: Group size should be relatively small, pairs or triads work well when processing new content. Handout Page 3 Students interacting in groups about the content Allows students to experience content from multiple perspectives Facilitates the learning of complex procedures and concepts NOTE: Group size should be relatively small, pairs or triads work well when processing new content. Myth or Truth Directions: Mark each statement with an M if you believe it is a myth and a T if you believe it is a truth. 1. We use only about 10% of our brain. 2. As far as the brain is concerned, it s all downhill after 40 (or 50 or 60 or 70). 3. The human brain weighs about 3 pounds. 4. Playing classical music to babies makes them smarter. 5. The brain is made up of 75% water.!!! The teacher organizes students into small groups to facilitate the processing of new information. Teacher has established routines for student grouping and student interaction in groups Teacher organizes students into ad hoc groups for the lesson Diads Triads Small groups up to about 5 Students move to groups in an orderly fashion Students appear to understand expectations about appropriate behavior in groups Respect opinions of others Add their perspective to discussions Ask and answer questions (choose one) 3 Adapts and creates new Organizes students into Organizes students into Uses strategy incorrectly or with Strategy was called for but not
8. Previewing New Content Reflecting on Teacher Beliefs and Practices How do you preview new content with your students? DIRECTIONS: List three ways that you preview new content with your students. 8. Previewing New Content! The Myth or Truth activity was deliberately chosen to begin the process of previewing the new content.! There are many ways to preview new content. The Truth or Myth activity is designed to activate prior knowledge relative to the topic of the brain.! Activating prior knowledge is considered a previewing strategy because previewing is defined as any activity that starts students thinking about the new content. Handout Page 4!!! The teacher engages students in activities that help them link what they already know to the new content about to be addressed and facilitates these linkages. Teacher uses preview question before reading Teacher uses K-W-L strategy or variation of it Teacher asks or reminds students what they already know about the topic Teacher provides an advanced organizer Outline Graphic organizer Teacher has students brainstorm Teacher uses anticipation guide Teacher uses motivational hook/launching activity Anecdotes Short selection from video Teacher uses word splash activity to connect vocabulary to upcoming content When asked, students can explain linkages with prior knowledge When asked, students make predictions about upcoming content When asked, students can provide a purpose for what they are about to learn Students actively engage in previewing activities (choose one) 4 Adapts and creates new Engages students in learning activities Engages students in learning activities Uses strategy incorrectly or with Strategy was called for but not
9. Chunking Information into Digestible Bites Why Do We Chunk? The brain likes chunking because single bits of information are more difficult to remember. The brain learns well when the material is chunked. Why Do We Chunk? The brain likes chunking because single bits of information are more difficult to remember. The brain learns well when the material is chunked. Let s look at the section of the article on Chunking on page 11. Grouping information together in categories is another method of chunking. Handout Pages 5 and 11 DIRECTIONS: Look at the section on Chunking on page 11. Grouping information together in categories is another method of chunking.!!! Based on student needs, the teacher breaks the content into small chunks (i.e. digestible bites) of information that can be easily processed by students. Teacher stops at strategic points in a verbal presentation While playing a video tape, the teacher turns the tape off at key junctures While providing a demonstration, the teacher stops at strategic points While students are reading information or stories orally as a class, the teacher stops at strategic points When asked, students can explain why the teacher is stopping at various points Students appear to know what is expected of them when the teacher stops at strategic points (choose one) The School District of Palm Beach County, FL 5 Single School Culture for Academics Uses strategy Strategy was incorrectly or with called for but not parts missing. exhibited. Adapts and creates new strategies for unique student needs and Breaks input experiences into small chunks based on student needs and Breaks input experiences into small chunks based on student needs.
10. Processing New Information DIRECTIONS: Read the Cocktail Party Effect on page 12. When you get to the Cocktail Party Experiment, some of the words are in bold type and some are not. As quickly as you can, read only the words in bold type. Explain the Cocktail Party Effect to your partner. 10. Processing New Information! Dr. Marzano suggests formal group processing strategies:! Jigsaw! Reciprocal Teaching! Concept Attainment A more detailed explanation of these strategies can be found in the Art and Science of Teaching book on pages 46 and 47 and in the Marzano glossary. Handout Page 6!!! During breaks in the presentation of content, the teacher engages students in actively processing new information. Teacher has group members summarize new information Teacher employs formal group processing strategies Jigsaw Reciprocal Teaching Concept attainment When asked, students can explain what they have just learned Students volunteer predictions Students voluntarily ask clarification questions Groups are actively discussing the content Group members ask each other and answer questions about the information Group members make predictions about what they expect next (choose one) 6 Department of Safe Schools Adapts and Engages students Engages students Uses strategy Strategy was creates new in summarizing, in summarizing, incorrectly or with called for but not strategies for predicting, and predicting, and parts missing. exhibited. unique student questioning questioning needs and activities and activities.
11. Elaborating on New Information Learning requires multiple exposures and interactions with knowledge. For example, answer this question: It is easier to drive a car while listening to the radio than it is to drive a car while reading a map. Why is that true? 11. Elaborating on New Information! Elaborations begin with simple inferential questions. When a student provides an answer, the teacher asks: Why do you believe this to be true? or Tell me why you think that this is so. Students need to be able to explain and defend the inferences. Handout Page 7!!! The teacher asks questions or engages students in activities that require elaborative inferences that go beyond what was explicitly taught. Teacher asks explicit questions that require students to make elaborative inferences about the content Teacher asks students to explain and defend their inferences Teacher presents situations or problems that require inferences Students volunteer answers to inferential questions nferences (choose one) Adapts and The School District of Palm Beach creates County, new FL strategies for unique student needs and situations. Engages students Engages students in answering 7 in answering inferential inferential questions and questions. monitors the extent to which students elaborate on what Uses strategy Strategy was incorrectly Single or with School Culture called for for but Academics not parts missing. exhibited.
12. Recording and Representing Knowledge Having Students Write Out Their Conclusions Note- taking Strategies o Informal Outline o Academic Notebooks o Informal Outline, Web and Combination Notes 12. Recording Knowledge! Having Students Write Out Their Conclusions! Note-taking Strategies! Informal Outline! Academic Notebooks! Informal Outline, Web and Combination Notes Nonlinguistic Representations: o Graphic Organizers o Pictographs o Flow Charts o Timelines Dramatic Enactments Mnemonic Devices o The Great Lakes: HOMES o Huron o Ontario o Michigan o Erie o Superior Period Table of Elements Informal Outline Handout Page 8 A group is a vertical column in the periodic table 18 groups Some groups contain elements with very similar properties Number of valence shell electrons determines group A period is a horizontal row in the periodic table 7 periods Some periods also show similar properties Total number of electron shells determines period Elements are listed in order of increasing atomic number Number of protons in atomic nucleus This strategy activates students prior knowledge and experiences in relationship to the new content. Previewing strategies include: Making overt linkages students identify connections between content they have studied and new content. Previewing questions activate prior knowledge. Brief Teacher Summary Teachers use oral and written summaries to help students anticipate key ideas and patterns. Academic Notebook 8
12. Recording and Representing Knowledge (Continued) Informal Outline, Web and Combination Notes!!! The teacher engages students in activities that help them record their understanding of new content in linguistic ways and/or represent the content in nonlinguistic ways. Teacher asks students to summarize the information they have learned Teacher asks students to generate notes that identify critical information in the content Teacher asks students to create nonlinguistic representations for new content Graphic organizers Pictures Pictographs Flow charts Teacher asks students to create mnemonics that organize the content ummaries and notes include critical content onlinguistic representations include critical content When asked, students can explain main points of the lesson (choose one) The School District of Palm Beach County, FL 9 Single School Culture for Academics Department of Safe Schools Uses strategy Strategy was incorrectly or with called for but not parts missing. exhibited. Adapts and creates new strategies for unique student needs and Engages students in activities that help them record their understanding of Engages students in activities that help them record their understanding of
13. Reflecting on Learning There are at least three reflection questions students might address (Cross, 1998; Ross, Hogaboam- Gray, & Rolheisser, 2002): o What was I right about and wrong about? o How confident am I about what I have learned? o What did I do well during the experience and what could I have done better? 13. Reflecting on Learning There are at least three reflection questions students might address (Cross, 1998; Ross, Hogaboam-Gray, & Rolheisser, 2002):! What was I right about and wrong about?! How confident am I about what I have learned?! What did I do well during the experience and what could I have done better? What do you use for reflecting on learning?! Reflective Questions and Journals! Exit Slips Handout Page 10 Teacher Strategies: o Reflective Questions and Journals! o Exit Slips!! The teacher engages students in activities that help them reflect on their learning and the learning process. Teacher asks students to state or record what they are clear about and what they are confused about Teacher asks students to state or record how hard they tried Teacher asks students to state or record what they might have done to enhance their learning When asked, students can explain what they are clear about and what they are confused about When asked, students can describe how hard they tried When asked, students can explain what they could have done to enhance their learning (choose one) High Probability vs. High Yield There are no high-yield instructional strategies; there are only high-probability strategies. The simple presence or absence of an instructional strategy does not define effectiveness, but it is Adapts and Engages students Engages students Uses strategy Strategy was rather the teacher s creates expertise new in adapting reflecting that on strategy in reflecting to the on classroom incorrectly within or with the context called for but of not lesson segments that strategies produces for gains their in own student learning achievement. their own learning parts missing. exhibited. Marzano (2009) unique student needs and situations. and the learning process and monitors the extent to which students self- The Art and Science of Teaching assess their understanding and the learning process. The strategy and effort. alone does not impact student achievement. It is using the strategy at the appropriate time and at the appropriate level. The Science of teaching is knowing the strategies and the Art of teaching is knowing when to use them. Why is the information that you are learning today important? 10 How do you know what are the most important things to pay attention to? What are the main points of this lesson?
THE MORE WE UNDERSTAND THE BRAIN, THE BETTER WE LL BE ABLE TO DESIGN INSTRUCTION TO MATCH HOW IT LEARNS BEST BRAIN IMAGING AND LEARNING The human brain is not the largest organ in the body. It weighs only about 3 pounds, less than the skin covering your body. Yet this marvelous structure is the source of all human behavior, simultaneously controlling a myriad of unbelievably complex functions. Within a span of time too short for humans to measure, it receives information and relays it to the appropriate locations for processing. We ve learned more about the brain and how it functions in the past two decades than in all of recorded history. We literally can look inside a brain and see what areas are most active while the person is engaged in various mental activities. We do this with the help of CAT Scans (Computed Tomography), PET Scans (Positron Emission Tomography), and MRIs (Magnetic Resonance Imaging). We should not consider designing instruction to teach the human brain without taking into account the brain and how it functions. The more we understand the brain, the better we ll be able to design instruction to match how it learns best. Will the day come when educators will have ready access to brain- imaging machines to assist them in diagnosing reading or attention problems? It may not be too outrageous to think so. For example, PET scans of a reader show that much more frontal lobe activity occurs when the subject reads silently than when he or she is reading aloud to others. Activity in the frontal lobes often indicates higher- level thinking. On the other hand, the scan of the student reading aloud glows brightly in the motor area of the brain that governs speech, while showing little activity elsewhere. One way to interpret these scans is that there is more comprehension of what is being read when one reads silently. Do these scans prove that students should never read aloud? Of course they don t. Armed with this information, however, teachers are able to make more informed decisions about how to balance silent and oral reading to obtain both diagnostic information on decoding problems and how to enhance comprehension of what is being read. CHUNKING Working memory is indeed limited. Still, before we become too discouraged with its space limitations, we need to realize that these limitations can be circumvented somewhat by the ability to chunk information. In discussing the number of items that one can hold in immediate memory, George Miller, a cognitive scientist, noted that the items did not have to be single bits but could be chunks of information. A chunk is defined as any meaningful unit of information. For example, take about 14 seconds to try memorizing the following sequence of 14 individual letters: IB MJ FKTW AUS ACD 11
This is difficult to do because 14 bits exceeds the capacity of your working memory. Now the letters form five chucks that are easy to remember. We see IBM as a single unit, as is 911 or the phrase a fat cat. Social Security numbers would be much more difficult to remember without the hyphens that group them into three memory- manageable chunks. Phone numbers are not remembered as a list of ten numbers but as two chunks of three numbers and one chunk of four. Grouping information together in classes or categories is another method of chunking. If you wanted learners to understand why the brain organizes information into networks, you might ask them to think about looking for a book in a library where the volumes are arranged in a random fashion. Have them estimate how long it would take to find book. The same is true of the human brain where, if information were not stored in networks or categories, retrieval of information would take forever. THE COCKTAIL PARTY EFFECT How is it that in the noisy, confusing environment of a cocktail party, where many conversations are occurring, you are able to focus on a single conversation? The brain accomplishes this using selective auditory attention, often referred to as the cocktail party effect. This allows you to filter out the other, often louder conversations and pay attention to the one that is most relevant. What if you wanted to listen to two conversations simultaneously or wanted your students to pay attention to what you are saying and what they were reading at the same time? Unfortunately, as nice as that would be, in most circumstances it s not possible. British psychologist E.C. Cherry first studied the cocktail party effect in the early 1950s. He analyzed the effect by providing competing speech inputs into each ear using headphones (dichotic listening). He sometimes asked subjects to repeat or shadow the train of thought coming into one ear while ignoring a similar input into the other ear. Under these conditions, the subjects could remember little of the unshadowed message (Cherry, 1953). Although the cocktail party effect refers to auditory processing, a similar effect can be observed in visual processing. A COCKTAIL PARTY EXPERIMENT In performing an experiment like this one on man attention car it house is boy critically hat important shoe that candy the man material car that house is boy being hat read shoe by candy the man subject car for house the boy relevant hat task shoe be candy cohesive man and car grammatically house correct boy but hat without shoe either candy being man so car easy house that boy full hat attention shoe is candy not man required care in house order boy to hat read shoe nor too difficult. 12
Note that doing two things at the same time is different from processing two inputs at the same time. It is certainly possible to do two things at the same time if one of them is automatic. Motor neurons (with assistance from the cerebellum) may become so used to being activated in a particular sequence that they fire automatically with little or no conscious processing. When writing has become automatic, it is no longer necessary to consciously determine when to dot an I or cross a t, which allows you to pay attention to the content of your writing. Most of the time you are able to comprehend what you are reading because the decoding process is automatic. First- grade students who are still sounding out most of the works in a sentence and for whom decoding is not automatic, however, will have a difficult time comprehending what they are reading. WHY MNEMONICS WORK Mnemonics are based on the principle that the brain is a pattern- seeking device, always looking for associations between the information it is receiving and what is already stored. Contrary to what many people believe, mnemonic strategies do not foster simple rote memory at the expense of comprehension and problem solving. In fact, available research evidence suggests that using mnemonic strategies to acquire factual information can often improve students ability to apply the information (Levin & Levin, 1990). We require students to remember a considerable body of material that has little or no inherent meaning, such as letters of the alphabet or the items that make up a classification system. For these types of information, mnemonic strategies are extremely effective. They create links or associations that give the brain an organizational framework on which to hook new information. For example, suppose the teacher wants her students to remember the names of the Great Lakes. The teacher can tell students to recall the word HOMES to remember Lake Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior. She provides a framework that makes the information easier to learn and more likely to be readily recalled. In this case, the teacher provided the students with the mnemonic framework. Later, students generate their own frameworks for other pieces of knowledge, which are often more meaningful and therefore more powerful as a memory tool. Research indicates that students performance on memory tasks is related to age. At about 5 th grade, students begin to demonstrate a more efficient use of memory strategies (Moely et al., 1969). Researchers have also shown that higher- achieving students of all ages are more likely to be able to invent effective learning strategies of their own. Learners can be taught to use effective strategies through demonstration and numerous opportunities to practice. Source: Wolfe, P. (2001). Brain Matters: Translating Research into Classroom Practice. Alexandria, VA: ASCD. 13