Cooperative

Cooperative Learning:
Learning:
What:
Students
What: Students work
work together
together
in
Groups
in Groups
Effect:
Effect: Positive
Positive
interdependence,
interdependence, increase
increase
learning
learning

Cues,
Questions, Organizers
Organizers
Cues, Questions,
What:
questions
What: Use
Use of
of hints,
hints, questions
and
organizers
to
activate
and organizers to activate
prior
knowledge and
and deepen
deepen
prior knowledge
student
student understanding.
understanding.
Effect:
Help students
students use
use
Effect: Help
what
they
already
know
what they already know to
to
enhance
learning.
enhance learning.

Advanced
Advanced Organizers
Organizers
What:
Proving
students with
with
What: Proving students
aa preview
new content.
preview of
of new
content.
Effect:
Provide students
students with
with
Effect: Provide
aa foundation
foundation upon
upon which
which to
to
build
knowledge
build knowledge

Marzano's
6
Instuction
al
Strategies

Homework
& Practice
Homework &
Practice
What:
Assigning
Homework/
What: Assigning Homework/
practice
activities
which
practice activities which
extend
learning
outside
extend learning outside the
the
classroom.
should have
classroom. Both
Both should
have
purpose.
purpose.
Effect:
Reinforces
learning
Effect: Reinforces learning
and/
or
prepares
the
and/ or prepares the student
student
for
learning.
for learning.

Identifying
Identifying Similarities
Similarities and
and
Differences
Differences
What: Breaking
Breaking aa concept
concept
What:
into
similar
and
dissimilar
into similar and dissimilar
characteristics
characteristics
Effect:
Allows students
students to
to
Effect: Allows
understand
complex
problems
understand complex problems
through
through aa simple
simple process.
process.
Encourages
variation
Encourages variation

Non-Linguistic
Non-Linguistic
Representation
Representation
What: Representing
Representing
What:
concepts/
ideas using
using pictures,
concepts/ ideas
pictures,
symbols,
models,
symbols, models, ect.
ect.
Effect:
Stimulates
and
Effect: Stimulates and
increases
brain
activity
increases brain activity in
in
both
the visual
visual and
and liguistic
liguistic
both the
areas.
Increases understanding
areas. Increases
understanding