1. Best Practice in Birdville ISD
Crysten Caviness
Coordinator of Professional Learning
& Curriculum Management
Birdville ISD

2. Digital Learning Team Reps
Kelli Montgomery
Director of Digital Learning
Michael Hanson
Digital Learning Specialist
Toni Hylander

3. Objectives Understand the principles of best-practice instruction
Identify, analyze, and apply
Marzano’s 9 best-practice strategies
Explore classroom applications of the
strategies that adhere to the principles of

4. Cues, Reinforcement and Recognition
AUDIO CUES
10 Second Wrap-Up
Stop
Listen
RECOGNITION
A-ha
Powerful Contribution
Support

6. Cues, Reinforcement and Recognition
AUDIO CUES
10 Second Wrap-Up
Stop
Listen
RECOGNITION
A-ha
Powerful Contribution
Support

7. Best-Practice Instruction

8. More/Less More Of… Less Of…
Imagine you are witnessing the epitome of “best-practice instruction.”
What kinds of things would you expect to see more of and less of in such a classroom?
More Of…
Less Of…

9. What is “best practice” for learning?1 2 3

10. Best Practice Exploration Zones1
Student-Centered 2
Cognitive 3
Interactive
Five Tasks
Explore Principles
More-Less
Why
How
Show
10 minutes to explore and discuss
10 minutes to make

11. Best Practice Exploration Zones1
Student-Centered 2
Cognitive 3
Interactive

12. STUDENT- CENTERED COGNITIVE INTERACTIVE
challenging authentic
reflective constructivist
expressive developmental
experiential holistic
Standards
INTERACTIVE
collaborative sociable
democratic

13. Cognitive This is about the RIGOR - higher-order, conceptual learning.
This represents the THINKING required by the standards. Learning causes students to construct their thinking according to their developmental stage.
When they can reflect upon and express this, their thinking is made visible and teachers can better assess their levels of cognition to determine necessary scaffolding.

14. Student-Centered
The focus is on what STUDENTS do, not what the teacher is doing. It is about the LEARNING.
Students will be involved in more authentic tasks that are challenging and provide experiences that lead to holistic learning.

15. Interactive
This is about the dynamics and structures of the class, as well as the locus of control.
Teachers empower students to be more accountable for their own learning and provide opportunities for sociable collaboration that allows students to interact not only with each other, but with their own learning.

16. Best-practice strategies and structures
Robert Marzano has done extensive work in determining what effect certain teaching strategies and structures have on learning.
How many of these strategies have you used for your own learning today?
Design a graphic organizer for participants to record their thoughts on and then use the Think, Pair, Share Strategy to capture thoughts.

17. Average Percentile Point Gains on Student Achievement Tests
Best Practices
Average Percentile Point Gains on Student Achievement Tests
Design a graphic organizer for participants to record their thoughts on and then use the Think, Pair, Share Strategy to capture thoughts.

19. 7 Out of 9
We have already. . .
Set objectives for our learning
Used analogies to find similarities between concepts and practices
Used cues for management
Provided each other with recognition and reinforcement
Begun an advance organizer that also serves as a guide for note-taking
Used cooperative learning structures to explore new concepts
Created and used non-linguistic representations to enhance understanding

20. Setting Objectives & Providing Feedback
Research:
Students learn more efficiently when they know the goals and objectives of a specific lesson or learning activity.

21. Questions, Cues & Advance Organizers
Help students analyze what they already know
Cues
Provide explicit reminders about what a student is about to experience
Advance Organizers
Help students retrieve what they know about a topic and focus on the new information

22. Questions, Cues & Advance Organizers
Recommendations:
Introduce new vocabulary
Provide links to prior knowledge or experiences
Begin with student predictions
Tell students the topic of an article they are about to read
Provide ways for students to organize new content

23. Reinforcing Effort & Providing Recognition

24. Reinforcing Effort & Providing Recognition
Rewards do not necessarily have a negative effect on intrinsic motivation.
Reward is most effective when it is contingent on the attainment of some standard of performance.
Symbolic recognition is more effective than tangible rewards. (charts)

25. Reinforcing Effort & Providing Recognition
Recognize effort & progress throughout unit
Specific praise
Intermittent celebrations
Students chart effort and achievement
Students record progress toward goals
Recommendations:
Charting their effort and achievement will reveal patterns and help students see the connection between the two.

26. Non-Linguistic Representations
Research:
Engaging students in the creation of nonlinguistic representations actually stimulates and increases activity in the brain

27. Non Linguistic Representations
Use Graphic Organizers to:
Make thinking visible
Activate current knowledge
Present information
Take notes
Summarize information
Assess student learning

28. Non Linguistic Representations
Recommendations:
Generating mental images
Drawing pictures or pictographs
Constructing graphic organizers
Acting out content
Making physical models
Making revisions to physical models, mental images, pictures, graphic organizers

29. Valuable Homework and Practice
Research:
Both homework and practice give students opportunities to deepen their understanding and proficiency with content they are learning.
Asset or Liability?
- It depends on how it is used

30. Increasing Value in Homework and Practice
Let’s Discuss!

31. Time to Reflect on Practice
What have you actually been DOING today?
How might your learning be different if the presenter was lecturing about these concepts?
Why is the work and practice that students do so important?

32. What is Cooperative Learning?

33. What is Cooperative Learning?
Test Hypothesis
Cooperative Learning Cards
Synthesis
Definitions + Exploration
Consensus
Generate a group definition
Tweet to #bisd3D

34. Cooperative Learning Research:
Organizing students into cooperative groups yields a positive effect on overall learning if approach is systematic and consistent.

35. Generating & Testing Hypotheses
Research:
Generating and testing hypotheses involves the application of knowledge, which enhances learning.

36. Generating & Testing Hypotheses
Examples of Strategies
Problem Solving
Investigation
Invention
Experimental Inquiry
Decision-Making

37. zt How did this strategy push my thinking?
What processes did I go through in my brain throughout the activity?
How could I use this to advance student learning in my classroom?

38. How are Marzano’s 9 aligned with best-practice principles?
How does each of Marzano’s 9 align to each principle?
What would the strategy look like when implemented according to each principle?
What would the strategy look like without each principle?

39. Identifying Similarities and Differences
Research:
The ability to break a concept into its similar and dissimilar characteristics allows students to understand and solve complex problems by analyzing them in a more simple way.

40. Identifying Similarities and Differences
-Comparing
similarities and differences
-Classifying
grouping things that are alike
-Metaphors
comparing two unlike things
-Analogies
identifying relationships between pairs

41. Identifying Similarities and Differences
Recommendations:
Give students a model for the process.
Use familiar content to teach steps.
Give students graphic organizers.
Guide students as needed.

42. 3 Out of 9 Since the break… Generated and tested hypotheses
Reflected on our practice
Generated and tested hypotheses
Identified similarities and differences

44. Objectives Understand the principles of best-practice instruction
Identify, analyze, and apply
Marzano’s 9 best-practice strategies
Explore classroom applications of the
strategies that adhere to the principles of

45. My Learning Reflections What I Still Want to Learn
Reflective Feedback
THINK
Objective
My Learning Reflections
What I Still Want to Learn
SUMMARIZE
Insert headline here
SHARE
Tweet to #bisd3D

46. Summarizing and Note Taking
- encourages powerful learning
- leads to deeper understanding
- facilitates long-term recall
Verbatim note taking is the least effective way to take notes.

47. Summarizing Recommendations Verbal summaries Written summaries
Graphic organizers
Have students paraphrase key points
Revise and interact with notes during and after learning
Recommendations

48. Note Taking
Research
Note taking and summarizing are closely related. Both require students to identify what is most important about the knowledge they are learning and then state that knowledge in their own words.

49. Note Taking Explicitly teach students a variety of note-taking formats
Recommendations
Explicitly teach students a variety of note-taking formats
Provide an organizer for taking notes
Have students revise and review their notes
Provide an activity for students to use their notes

50. 3 Out of 9 In the home stretch… Provided feedback to ourselves
Summarized with headlines
Reinforced effort and provided recognition

51. Best-Practice Teaching
Involves incorporating all pedagogical categories
All strategies will not work all of the time
Categories help us select strategies based upon their purposes
Accounts for the art and science of teaching
Critical for the shift to a learning platform
Critical to ensuring that all students learn

52. Best Practices We hit them all!
Design a graphic organizer for participants to record their thoughts on and then use the Think, Pair, Share Strategy to capture thoughts.

53. Best Practices for Using Technology for Learning

54. The REAL Best Practices
Set a reasonable time to leave school each day & stick to it.
Get serious about germ prevention!
Stock an emergency drawer in your desk: deodorant, dental floss, hair spray, comb, flip flops, thank you notes, gum, snacks and a sweater/jacket.
Prep an emergency sub plan now so you are ready for the unexpected illness…it will happen.
Don’t compare your ‘beginning’ to someone else’s ‘middle’.

55. The REAL Best Practices
Provide a safe and nurturing environment for our kids and yourself.
Be a role model. Be the teacher who students know really cares about them, their interests, struggles and successes.
Connect with other educators and the community.
Tweet. A lot. #bisddlp #bisd3D #WeAreBirdville #BISDshines
Do at least one thing with your class each week that reminds you of why you became a teacher in the first place!

56. The #1 Best-Practice Strategy: