Element 26
Maintaining a Lively Pace
Elements 1 -3 have a focus on Providing and Communicating Clear Learning Goals
Where do I start?
Your primary resource is your book The New Art and Science of Teaching by Robert J Marzano. This site will take you further into each element.
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Dive Deeper
The Marzano Compendium of Instructional Strategies is a great place to begin. This folio is designed to help teachers increase their effectiveness by focusing on professional growth. It includes numerous strategies and reproducibles.
Self Assess
This scale will help you assess and monitor your progress with this element.
4
Innovating
I adapt behaviors and create new strategies for unique student needs and situations.
A teacher maintains an appropriate pace during instruction and monitors the effect on student engagement. He realizes that while his pacing is working for the majority of students in his class, there are a few students who get bored more easily than the rest. To help keep these students engaged, he uses an interesting content-related fact or real-life application to introduce each instructional segment.
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Applying
I use pacing techniques to maintain students’ engagement, and I monitor the extent to which these techniques keep students engaged.
A teacher maintains a quick pace in his classroom without overwhelming students by teaching efficient transitions and keeping a list of questions to revisit later. He knows that his students are more engaged based on the results of surveys that he administers periodically.
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Developing
I use pacing techniques to maintain students’ engagement, but I do not monitor the effect on students.
A teacher moves faster through the content when students become bored and slows down when they get confused. This seems beneficial, but she doesn’t have any proof beyond a general intuition.
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Beginning
I use the strategies and behaviors associated with this element incorrectly or with parts missing.
A teacher tries to maintain a lively instructional pace but ends up rushing through the content and confusing her students.
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Not Using
I am unaware of strategies and behaviors associated with this element.
A teacher presents all content at the same pace. He also neglects to use consistent transition procedures with his students, leading to a great deal of wasted time.
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What does it look like?
Here is an example video from one of our D49 teachers!
Watch Example: Providing and Communicating Clear Learning Goals Classroom: Kindergarten
Teacher: Jaci Reed (RVES)
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