Marzano's High Yield Strategies and the Super 7

Did you know that Marzano has done extensive research on 9 instructional strategies that you can use in your classroom that will result in high achievement gains?  Each one of the instructional strategies relate to Marzano's Super 7.  Marzano has identified 7 elements that will have a high impact on the learning that takes place in your classroom.

Here are the 9 instructional strategies and the percent gains they should yield:
1. Identifying similarities and differences (45 percentile gain)
2. Summarizing and note taking (34 percentile gain)
3. Reinforcing effort and providing recognition (29 percentile gain)
4. Homework and practice (28 percentile gain)
5. Non-linguistic representations (27 percentile gain)

6. Cooperative learning (23 percentile gain)

7. Setting objectives and providing feedback (23 percentile gain)

8. Generating and testing hypothesis (23 percentile gain)

9. Questions, cues, and advance organizers (22 percentile gain)

You will notice that several of these instructional strategies relate to a number of Marzano elements.  Marzano research has shown that the following 7 elements from DQ #2,3,4, have the greatest impact on student achievement:
Element #6 Identifying critical information
Element #11 Elaborating on new information
Element #12 Recording and representing knowledge
Element #17 Examining similarities and differences
Element #18 Examining errors in reasoning
Element #20 Revising knowledge
Element #22 Engaging students in cognitively complex tasks involving hypothesis generation and testing

The highlighted elements are included in the Charlotte County Expectations.  Attached you will find a few documents that include what research says about the strategy and how it will look in the classroom.  There are also a few examples included in the document as well. 

Thank you so much for the great response to our Mighty Marzano PLC opportunity.  I was so pleased with the number of teachers who attended and gave their full effort to gain a better understanding of element #7.  I hope that you found it worthwhile.  Based on the information that was provided on the exit tickets, we will continue with our Mighty Marzano PLC. Our next session will focus on Element #18 Examining Errors in Reasoning on February 5^th.