Chris WintersInternational Christian School

Effective Strategies

Marzano’s Research

Effective Teaching

Advance Organizers

Building Vocabulary

Graphic Organizers

Chunking Information

Summarizing & Note Taking

Identifying Similarities

& Differences

Marzano’s Research

Effective Teaching

Advance Organizers

Building Vocabulary

Chunking Information

Summarizing & Note Taking

With 1 or 2 people around you:

Describe your understanding of one of these 4 elements of effective teaching.

Explain a way you integrate one element.

What did we just do?Advance Organizer• Preview content• Activate background knowledge• Visual representation (visual)• Allowed students to speak out loud (auditory)• Organization and Structure

(Marzano, Gaddy, & Dean, 2000)

Summarizing & Note-Taking

» Note taking » A systematic method for recording the key concepts from a lecture, text or

other source of information (Marzano et al., 2000).

» Summary» A brief statement conveying the gist of the text which should include the

main idea and relevant support (Boling & Evans, 2008).

Summarizing

Constructed Gist

Synthesis of Ideas

Paraphrasing

Selection of Core

Information

(Marzano et al., 1990)

Direct teaching of terms & concepts

Summary

A brief statement conveying the gist of the text which should include the main idea and relevant support (Boling & Evans, 2008).

My explanation:A person created a summary when they take in a piece of information and churn it up with their related knowledge in order to communicate the heart of the information in an original way.

Why does summarizing work?

Self-awareness of thought

Application of intense effort

Distinguishing essential information

Internalization

(Braxton, 2009)

Summaries

Make sense of a passage

Judge importance of text

Construct a statement of the gist

Focus the writing on the most essential information

Bloom’s Association

Comprehend

Evaluate

Synthesize / Apply

Analyze

Higher Order Thinking

Get to the heart

Interiorize

Synthesize

Talk it out

Ways to summarize

Summary Tools

Save the last quote!

3 , 2, 1 Summarize

1 Sentence Summary

One Word

Statue

The Last Word

Gist

3 WAYS…

2 THINGS

1 APPLICATION

Read page 146 – Vocabulary terms and phrases together

Index Card Side A - Quote

“Expending time and resources on vocabulary instruction, therefore, seems justified, given the importance of vocabulary development.”

Save the last quote!

Index Card Side B - Response

Teaching vocabulary directly enriches the background knowledge of students as they prepare to read or begin a new lesson. When they encounter the text in literature or the teacher’s instruction their new knowledge will be reinforced .

Your turn!

Read page 146 – Vocabulary terms and phrases together

Great for content areas like Science and Social Studies!

In Literature• Discuss reading assignments• Connections to the story• Describing characters• Making predictions

Follow up by using the quote in discussion!

Save the last quote!

Note Taking“The literature indicates that note-taking is not only an effective learning strategy but is also the most common practice students engage in during class” (Lee & Shute, 2009, p. 12).

Note Taking

Note Taking

Guided Notes

Webbing

Combination Notes

Symbols

Combination NotesSummarizing

InternalizationSelf-awareness of thoughtApply intense effortDistinguish important info

Types of summaries Save the last

quoteA Quote

B Response

SS - Science – LitGreat for discussion

The Last word = acronym of word related to lesson

Written summary here

Note taking - Guided notes--

3-2-1- Summarize!Explain 3 ways you can teach students to summarize.

Summarizing

3-2-1- Summarize!Identify 2 reasons that summarizing is an effective strategy.

3-2-1- Summarize!Explain how you are going to implement 1 of these strategies in your class on Monday.

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