Element 8
Recording and Representing Content
Elements 6 -8 have a focus on Direct Instruction Lessons
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.
2
Developing
I have students record and represent content, but I do not monitor the effect on students.
A teacher teaches her class a mnemonic for remembering different units of measurement. She uses the mnemonic effectively throughout the unit, but she doesn’t try to determine if it enhanced their recall of the content.
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Innovating
I adapt behaviors and create new strategies for unique student needs and situations.
A teacher asks her class to use graphic organizers to record and represent critical content. First, she provides them with several templates they can use to record their notes and explains each purpose. She then puts students into small groups to complete their graphic organizers. As they complete their graphic organizers, she walks around the room, checking in with specific students whom she knows have been having difficulty with the content. At the end of the lesson, she asks each group to explain why they chose their graphic organizer and what it helped them understand about the content.
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Applying
I have students record and represent content, and I monitor the extent to which my actions affect students’ performance.
A teacher has his class use academic notebooks to record information, ideas, and reflections. He encourages students to write notes and record their ideas as diagrams or draw- ings. At the end of every unit, the teacher asks students to go back through their notes to amend any misunderstandings and respond to hypotheses made earlier in the unit. He then collects the academic notebooks and reviews them to see how the students’ entries compare to their assessment answers and scores.
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Beginning
I use the strategies and behaviors associated with this element incorrectly or with parts missing.
A teacher asks his students to use combination notes to record critical information from a lesson. However, students are unfamiliar with the summarizing part of the organizer, and because the teacher does not model or explain techniques for summarizing, many leave that section of their notes blank.
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Not Using
I am unaware of strategies and behaviors associated with this element.
A teacher expects that her students will take notes if they need to, but she does not provide them with any kind of strategies to do so.
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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)
iObservation Videos
More videos can be found in the Resource Library in iObservation.
Recording and Representing Knowledge Grade: 5
Description:
In this video, Dr. Marzano introduces and discusses the lesson segment addressing content with specific attention to recording and representing knowledge.
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Recording and Representing Knowledge 2 Grade: 5
Description:
In this video, Dr. Marzano introduces and discusses the lesson segment addressing content with specific attention to recording and representing knowledge.
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Recording and Representing Knowledge Grade: 9
Description:
In this video, Dr. Marzano introduces and discusses the lesson segment addressing content with specific attention to recording and representing knowledge.
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