MCSD|Secondary Education

Classroom Materials and Resources
MCSD Framework of Initiatives Checklist for Implementation of Instructional Strategies Marzano's Nine Essential Instructional Strategies
(Click selected strategy listed in red for a quick location.)
Standards-Based Classroom	Rigor Through Critical Thinking Skills	Differentiated Instruction	Engaged Learners	On-site Support	Professional Learning Communities

How is Rigor Attained

Through Critical Thinking Skills?

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Higher-Order Thinking

* Strategies

1. Use action verbs noted in Bloom's document to design units and lesson plans.

Bloom's Taxonomy and Verb List

2. Note the strategies indicated by Marzano's Nine on this page.

3. Performance Objectives, measurable indicators of mastery

Rigor in the Classroom

* Strategies

1. Marzano's, Classroom Instruction that Works

2. Assessing Academic Rigor in the Math Classroom

3. New Horizons for Learning

Mentoring Minds Resources

Differentiated Instruction

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* Strategies for Gifted and Talented

1. 21st Century Skills

* Life and Career Skills for gifted/talented

* Critical Thinking Skills Math

* Critical Thinking Skills Science

2. Using Exemplar Tasks

* Edutopia, videos

* Authentic Assessment Toolbox,

click examples (left side of page)

* NAEP, click search options button

* Balanced Assessment,

Harvard's College of Education

* GaDOE Units and Tasks

* SIS Math Sites,

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* SIS GPS Training, Day 3

3. Low-Prep and High Prep Strategies

(Marzano's Essential Nine Instructional

Strategies, #9)

* Strategies for Struggling Students

1. Graphic Organizers:

* Education Oasis

* Education Place Graphic Organizers:

(List of .pdf files)

* Enchanted Learning

* EverythingESL

* Examples in .pdf files

* Freeology (includes Cornell Note Taker)

* North Central Regional Education

Laboratory: (Examples and Descriptions)

* Scholastic: Reading

* SCORE from California for Language Arts

* TeacherVision: Graphic Organizers by Subject

2. Content-Area Literacy Instruction (CALI)

* Word Walls - with graphics (Marzano’s

Essential Nine, #5 Nonlinguistic)

3. Low-Prep and High Prep Strategies

(Marzano's Essential Nine Instructional Strategies, #9)

* Strategies for Organizing to Meet Different Student Needs

1. Organizing the Environment (management examples)

2. Notebook: rubric, assignment log (grades)

3. Collecting Productivity, maximizing instructional time

4. Summarize tasks or procedures in students own words and record in notebooks. (Marzano's, #2)

5. Model note taking for students using overhead notes for notebooks. (organized overhead)

(Marzano's, #2)

6. Homework: Feedback through classroom key, classroom corrections, teacher's verbal commentary

and notebook file. (add to assignment log ) (Marzano's, #4)

Differentiated Instruction

1. Traditional Instruction vs Differentiated Instruction

2. Enhance Learning with Technology

3. Adjust Your Teaching Style

4. Strategies for Differentiating Instruction

5. Differentiated Instruction by Internet 4 Classrooms

6. Bloom's Taxonomy

7. Questioning Toolkit

articles:

1. The Partnerships for 21st Century Skills

2. enGuage 21st Century Skills

3. Examples for implementing 21st Century Learning Skills (by disciplines)

4. Brain Research: Implications to Diverse Learners

Engaged Learners

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* Strategies

1. Indicators of Engaged Learners
    * NCREL's Indicators of Engaged Learners: Table of Variables and Indicators
    * NCREL's Indicators of Engaged Learning: Descriptions
    * Indicators of Engaged Leaning: Quiz for Teachers
    * Classroom Checklist
    * NCREL Engaged Indicators: Assessment in Your Instruction

2. Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition (Marzano's, #3)
    * Reinforcing Effort with Tickets: Student form for Purchase Requests
    * Ticket-Out-The-Door: Instructions

3. Engaged Learning Environment
    What is a model engaged learning environment?
    * Video: Inside a standards-based middle school class
    * Seating Charts
        - Entering the Environment
        - Partners
    * Time-On-Task
       - Timers
       - Timed PowerPoint

4. Working On the Work (WOW) by P. Schlechty
     * Engaged Learner Correlated to WOW Standards

5. Marzano's Nine Essential Instructional Strategies

6. Motivation: May 2008 Newsletter - Strategies to Engage Middle-Level Learners

On-site Support

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Curriculum Mapping Software: Rubicon Atlas
* Strategies
   1. Vocabulary Review for Curriculum Mapping Software
     2. Training Manual used to support curriculum mapping software and review GPS
     3. Search Rubicon Atlas for GPS Units, Rubrics, Graphic Organizers

GAPSS Analysis
    1. Support Site
    2. Classroom Observation Form

Checklists:

* Strategies

     1. Standards Checklist Template - (Design for selected standard or unit.)

     2. Example - Standards Checklist

     3. Student Checklist - (Design for selected standard or unit.)