High Yield Strategies
Effective Teaching. Effective Learning.
Teachers design and deliver lessons every day. But are they the most effective lessons possible, designed to optimize what students know and can do? With limited instructional time, maximizing the effect of instruction is critical. Using over 30 years of research by Robert Marzano and others, participants learn how to incorporate highly effective, research-based strategies into their daily instruction.
Based on the top-selling book, Classroom Instruction That Works, Teachscape collaborated with Robert Marzano and McREL to create a series of compelling resources designed to increase achievement across the board and in every content area.
This Program of Study includes onsite coaching for instructional leaders, content-focused observation protocols, and valuable online resources like the following:
- High Yield Strategies: The Essential Foundation - Grades K-12
The Essential Foundation focuses on Marzano's research, an overview of the resulting nine strategies proven to improve student achievement, and on two specific foundational strategies: setting objectives and providing feedback, reinforcing effort and providing recognition. - High Yield Strategies: Acquiring and Integrating Knowledge - Grades K-12
Acquiring and Integrating Knowledge can be used independently or as a follow up to The Essential Foundation. This online resource focuses on strategies that help students access prior knowledge, connect that knowledge to new knowledge, and organize information. These strategies include: cues, questions and advance organizers, nonlinguistic representation, summarizing and note-taking, and cooperative learning. - High Yield Strategies: Practicing, Reviewing and Retaining Knowledge - Grades K-12
Also designed to be used independently or as a follow-up to prior HYS studies, Practicing, Reviewing and Retaining Knowledge focuses on strategies that help students clear up confusion and misconceptions, correct errors, and apply their learning in meaningful contexts. These strategies include: identifying similarities and differences, homework and practice, and generating and testing hypotheses.