Marzano Strategies

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Marzano Strategies

• Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers

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Questions and cues definition

• Sets the stage for learning by finding out what
  students already know, then connect new ideas to
  students existing knowledge base.
• Creates a framework that helps students focus on
  what they are about to learn

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Prior Knowledge

• Prior knowledge can influence what we perceive
• If meaningful connections are not made new
  information may be memorized but lost after
  testing.

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Using Cues Questions

• Asking questions as you introduce new content
  will not only tell you what students already know
  but also whether they have misunderstandings.
• Asking questions and prompting students replies
  with cues can effectively guide students
  learning.

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Using Cues Questions

• Asking higher level questions with wait time
  produces deeper learning as well as conversation
  among students.
• Asking questions that focus on the important
  points helps to guide students towards the big
  picture.

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Examples

• KWL
• Anticipation Guide
• Prediction Guide

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Inferential Questions helps students fill in the
gaps

• What effect does this action have?
• Where does this event take place?
• How is this thing usually used?
• How long does this take?

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Analytical Questions require students to analyze
and critique information

• How is this information misleading?
• Why would consider this to be good or bad?
• What is an alternative perspective?

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Advance Organizers definition

• An instructional component that is used before
  direct instruction or before a new topic
  (prepares the learner).
• Designed to bridge the gap between what the
  learner already knows and what she needs to know.

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Advance Organizers

• Marzano states, " Advance organizers take the
  surprise out of what is to come, help students
  retrieve what they already know about a topic,
  and focus them on the new information."

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• Advance organizers come in many different forms,
  such as
• Expository (a brief written summary)
• Narrative (telling a story)
• Skimming (quick read)
• Graphic (nonlinguistic)
• www.writesite.org/html/organize.html