RBIS Research-Based Instructional Strategies Day 2 Starpoint Special Area Teachers and Science Liz Fisher and Monica Daigler

Today  Questions, Cues, and Advance Organizers (Academic Strategy)  Cooperative Learning (Motivational Strategy)  Summarizing and Note-taking (Academic Strategy)

Advance Organizers  Graphic representation of what students will learn (given BEFORE the learning)  Includes essential information not unusual information  Expository Organizers  Narrative Organizers  Teach students to skim (SQ3R)  What might this look like in your classroom/content area?

Note-Taking  Modified Cornell Notes (right and left brain)  Reflection Questions  Think-Pair-Share Activity  Pg 83 in purple book and rubric on pg 90  Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs Research

Cooperative Learning – 4 groups  3 groups (outline, web, picture notes)  Read “What is Cooperative Learning?”  On poster paper, create the assigned notes based on the article  1 Group -- “Grouping Students” activity  Share (pros/cons)  What does Cooperative Learning and look like in your classroom/content area? AND how do you group your students?

Cooperative Learning Activity  HAVE FUN!  Be ready to share in __________ minutes.  Deconstruct activity and use rubric.

Flip Cameras  ng-flip-cameras-in-your-classroom/ ng-flip-cameras-in-your-classroom/ ng-flip-cameras-in-your-classroom/  ulling-videos-from-flip.pdf ulling-videos-from-flip.pdf ulling-videos-from-flip.pdf  Music:  Science:  PE:  Health:  Business:  Technology:  Foreign Language:  Art:

Cooperative Learning Strategies  Read article and brainstorm ways you could use any of them in your classroom/content area  Go to and share your ideas

Questions and Cues  Questions-wait time, higher level requiring students to think (inferential questions) – pgs  Cues – tapping into background and prior knowledge, helps establishes expectations for students – pgs

Acknowledgements  Material was taken from presentations done by Debra Pickering (Spring 2005 Classroom Instruction That Works)and Bea McGarvey (Fall 2006 What Works in Schools)  Classroom Instruction That Works – Robert J. Marzano, Debra J. Pickering, Jane E. Polluck  A Handbook for Classroom Instruction That Works – Robert J. Marzano, Jennifer S. Norford, Diane E. Paynter, Debra J. Pickering, Barbara B. Gaddy  What Works in Schools – Robert J. Marzano