Examining Reasoning: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Produce and Defend Claims, Ocasio Tracy L., Marzano Robert J.

Gain research-based instructional strategies and teaching methods that drive student success:

• Explore instructional strategies that correspond to each of the 43 elements of The New Art and Science of Teaching, which have been carefully designed to maximize student engagement and achievement.
• Use ten design questions and a general framework to help determine which classroom strategies you should use to foster student learning.
• Analyze the behavioral evidence that proves the strategies of an element are helping learners reach their peak academic success.
• Study the state of the modern standards movement and what changes must be made in K-12 education to ensure high levels of learning for all.
• Download free reproducible scales specific to the elements in The New Art and Science of Teaching.

Contents:
Chapter 1: Providing and Communicating Clear Learning Goals
Chapter 2: Conducting Assessment
Chapter 3: Conducting Direct Instruction Lessons
Chapter 4: Practicing and Deepening Lessons
Chapter 5: Implementing Knowledge Application Lessons
Chapter 6: Using Strategies That Appear in All Types of Lessons
Chapter 7: Using Engagement Strategies
Chapter 8: Implementing Rules and Procedures
Chapter 9: Building Relationships
Chapter 10: Communicating High Expectations
Chapter 11: Making System Changes

With this user-friendly resource, you will learn how to implement powerful professional learning community (PLC) structures that enable you and your team to successfully implement the key elements of a high reliability school: (1) competency-based education, (2) standards-based grading, (3) guaranteed and viable curriculum, (4) effective teaching in every classroom, and (5) a collaborative learning culture.

Marzano, Warrick, Rains, and DuFour will help you:

• Increase school effectiveness and school improvement by implementing the PLC process to form high reliability schools.
• Learn a four-step process for achieving High Reliability Schools status.
• Explore the three big ideas associated with the PLC at Work(TM) process to implement student-centered, collaborative teaching strategies, and data-driven instruction.
• Discover the characteristics of effective school leaders.
• Understand how to balance and achieve districtwide goals using data to improve student achievement and college- and career-readiness.

Contents:
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: High Reliability Organizations and School Leadership
Chapter 2: Safe and Collaborative Culture
Chapter 3: Effective Teaching in Every Classroom
Chapter 4: Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum
Chapter 5: Standards-Referenced Reporting
Chapter 6: Competency-Based Education
Chapter 7: District Leadership in High Reliability Schools
Appendix
References and Resources
Index