Marzano Strategies

Strategy 1:
The first Marzano Strategy revolves around setting
objectives on a small level. This can often mean from lesson to
lesson. One application of this strategy would be with a student
that is very intelligent and capable of learning new ideas but
needs to find the motivation to both put in effort in the first
place and to eventually succeed. If a child is struggling with a
certain unit in class, chances are they will struggle to complete
the assigned work for the lesson at home as well, since there is
not a teacher present and encouraging them to stay on task.
Utilizing a more broad objective such as the third one, lets
students know what they should expect to be learning about but
also allows for a student to build their own ideas around the
topic. This allotment for creativity could be great in helping
students set goals for success. If a child sets out to learn with a
plan, it will greatly improve their ability to grasp the topics
discussed.
Strategy 2:
The second Marzano Strategy investigates the role that
recognition plays in student motivation. This reminds me of my
own experience with education, especially in High School. I was
not always convinced that I would become a history teacher or a
teacher of any subject for that matter. From the time I was
young, I always had to try very hard in order to earn good
grades. Growing up, my parents would edit my papers and make
so many changes to my grammar and vocabulary that I never
had to truly learn how to write well on my own. This made me
feel as though I was unintelligent on my own. So, that was the
view that I took of myself and I put effort into my school work
accordingly. I was not motivated to do well in school because I
felt that even when I put in my total effort, I still was not bright
enough to do well on my own. It was not until my senior year
English teacher took the time to sit me down and recognize not
just the areas of his class that needed more attention, but the
lessons that I succeeded in. This gave me an entirely new
outlook on my ability and intellect, right in time for college. It is
important to support students' self-efficacy by giving them
recognition, or else it could be fatal to their desire to learn.
Strategy 7:
The use of homework in the classroom is very important to
get the students to show mastery of the subject. First you explain
the purpose of the lesson and finally, you give feedback showing
what they did wrong or can improve on. This strategy is used to
help students develop a good understanding of the material. This
is used through summarizing, note-taking and finally though
homework and other assessments so they can be graded on their
mastery of the subject. This strategy is very useful for the
development of the student's knowledge of a subject as well as,
assessing the student's knowledge.
Strategy 8:
Identifying commonalities for a subject is important not only to
further understand the subject but also for critical thinking. This
can also help students practice teamwork. By doing comparisons
and contradictions it helps the kids work together as well as
thinking together. Critical thinking is a vital part of teaching
because without it kids will not know the proper steps to
complete everyday objectives.
Strategy 4:
Helping students develop understanding is a vital part of
teaching. Developing understanding starts with using name and
identify to develop the initial understanding which helps the
student get an idea of what they will be learning. Next teachers
test students knowledge by asking them questions based on the
lesson to further their knowledge of the lesson as well as, further
their knowledge on the subject. Then students will elaborate on
the knowledge and link it to existing knowledge to once again
further their knowledge of the lesson and better understand past
lessons. Finally reflection from students helps them understand
what they learned and why which will help them develop
opinions of the lessons.
Strategy 5:
Nonlinguistic Representations are used to teach lessons
without ever having to say anything or let the student develop
his or her own opinion. This differentiation helps students that
need to see or do rather than just listen to lecture and understand
the lesson. Those that need to see the lesson to better understand
it will be helped more through graphic organizers, visualizing
and pictures and illustrations to get a better picture of the lesson
or lessons. The students that need to do the problem or activity
to better understand the lesson would have more help by using
physical models or an kinesthetic activity.
Strategy 6:
Summarizing and note-taking is important especially in a
class like history or english because these classes have tests with
various different units that the students will want notes to study
with or look back on. For this reason it is important that we as
teachers not only teach good note taking skills but also make
good notes that every student will understand. As teachers we
can do this by using graphics, pictures or charts to make sure the
students attention doesn’t sway away from the lesson. Also,
showing the students what good notes look like will help the
students understand what the expectations of the class is. As a
student myself the more colorful or interesting the slides the
better i understood the material.
Strategy 3:
Cooperative learning stresses positive interdependence but
also individual accountability. To do this keeping the group
sizes small will help the students be cooperative but also stay on
track. Also, keeping group work consistent will make sure they
are comfortable with group work and don’t become off-task
during the lesson. Some examples of good groups are shoulder
partners, table groups or even putting them in groups using a
randomizer. This will ensure that the students don’t get too
comfortable with the same people and branch out which will
differentiate the ways that students learn. We all know that each
student learns differently so putting students with a variety of
different partners will help them understand the lesson better. As
teachers it is our job to make sure students stay on track but also
not to be redundant when it comes to group work.
Strategy 9:
Generating and testing hypothesis is not only important in
science but in all subjects. In history we should teach the
students to engage in historical problems and identify what the
problem and solution was. We can do this in school problems
too. History is a vital subject because as we know history repeats
itself and that's just how it goes but if we teach students to
identify the problem before it happens or even as it happens will
help the student or students use problem solving skills.
Investigation is also key for resolving the issue and also learning
from that issue to gain knowledge on the historical subject. This
will make sure there is no confusions or contradictions in the
historical knowledge but it is our jobs as teachers to make sure
their hypothesis are on the right track to make sure the get the
right outcome. Hypothetical situations are also a good teaching
method in history because it poses a question to historical
knowledge without the student realizing that they are learning
about history but rather just answering a morality question. ​