Marzano's High-Yield Instructional Strategies & Teacher Evaluation

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Hi. Thank you for joining me today to discuss Marzano's high-yield instructional strategies and teacher evaluation. Let's get started by looking at our essential questions. Today we're going to answer, what is Marzano's teacher evaluation model, and how does Marzano's model connect with Danielson?

A couple of reminders-- today's focus is on teacher evaluation, so there will not be a lesson example, and there are no key terms. Let's review by taking a look at Marzano's high-yield instructional strategies. Remember, there are nine high-yield instructional strategies. They're identifying similarities and differences, summarizing and notetaking, reinforcing effort and providing recognition, homework and practice, nonlinguistic representations, cooperative learning, setting objectives and providing feedback, generating and testing hypotheses, questions, cues, and advanced organizers.

These are things that teachers can do in the classroom to help the students be successful. So for example, when we're talking about identifying similarities and differences, we're talking about what is similar between what the students have already learned and what they're about to learn? When we talk about number four, homework and practice, it's about having meaningful homework that's going to extend the learning, not just having busy work.

So if we're doing all of these in the classroom, how can we evaluate a teacher who's doing them effectively? That's what we're going to talk about next. We're going to use Danielson as our model. Remember, Danielson has four domains of teaching responsibility, planning and preparation, classroom environment, instruction, and professional responsibilities. Under each of these domains, she has specific indicators. We're going to look more closely at one of these domains and how they relate to Marzano's instructional strategies.

The domain we're looking at today is the instruction domain of Danielson. Let's take a look at each of these indicators and discuss specifically how it connects to Marzano's high-yield instructional strategies. The first indicator, communicating with students, connect to Marzano through providing feedback, setting goals and objectives, reinforcing effort, and providing recognition. The next indicator, using questioning and discussion techniques, connects to Marzano's strategies of questions, cues, and advanced organizers, and generating and testing hypotheses.

Engaging students in learning connects to Marzano's nonlinguistic representations, cooperative learning, homework and practice, similarities and differences, and notetaking strategies as well as summarizing. Using assessment and instruction relates back to feedback and setting goals. And demonstrating flexibility and responsiveness relates to Marzano's strategies of reinforcing effort and providing recognition. You can apply the domain three of instruction to your own teaching and a variety of ways.

Basically, hopefully you've noticed by now that all of these strategies kind of say the same thing, but they label it in different ways, and they do have different nuances. Domain three of Danielson is all about instruction. And it relates to Marzano in the fact that Marzano is all about nine, high-yield instructional strategies. So these are just a way that you can self-assess. Am I communicating with my students? Am I using questioning and discussion techniques? Am I using assessment?

If you're unsure about the ways to use them, then you can refer to Marzano's nine, high-yield instructional strategies. So what's Marzano's evaluation model? Marzano actually has 41 indicators, and each of those falls under a different domain. The domains are separated by questions. So we're going to look at two. The first is, what will I do to help students actively interact with new knowledge? To help the students actively interact with new knowledge, the teacher wants to make sure they're doing the following things.

They're identifying the critical information. This goes back to the recognizing similarities and differences between what we've learned and setting clear objectives. They're going to organize students to interact with new knowledge. This could be used in group work. They're going to preview new content and chunk content into digestible bites. They're going to process new information and then elaborate on new information then record and represent knowledge, and then, finally, reflect on learning.

The second aspect of Marzano we're going to look at is, what will I do to help students practice and deepen their understanding of new knowledge? The first thing we can do is review content. Again, this connects to similarities and differences under the nine, high-yield instructional strategies models. And then we're going to organize students to practice and deepen knowledge. So this could be using group work, and this is a pedagogical skill.

Next, using homework, which homework and practice is a really important part of Marzano's nine high-yield instructional strategies. Next, we're going to examine similarities and differences. Then we're going to examine errors and reasoning, practice skills, strategies, and processes, and then revise knowledge. This is a good spot to stop and reflect. Evaluate yourself based on Danielson's communicating with students. How are you doing, and how can you improve?

A really useful book you can look out for further reading, especially on this topic, is Classroom Instruction that Works by Marzano. The ISBN number is included here. Let's review. We talked about what Marzano's teacher evaluation model was, and that's the 41 strategies that we've talked briefly about. And then, how did Marzano's model connect to Danielson?

As you reflect on how this new information can be applied, you may want to explore the Additional Resources section that accompanies this video presentation. This is where you'll find links to resources chosen to help you deepen your learning and explore ways to apply your newly acquired skillset.

Thanks for joining me, and happy teaching.