Karen M.

Posted on 6/28/11

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I'd like to recommend a book. I was able to buy it on
Amazon. The title of the book is "Classroom Instruction
That Works: Research Based Strategies for Increasing
Student Achievement". The author is Robert J. Marzano, et
al.

I did a study of it last summer. The research presented in
it is easy to understand. The book focuses on 8
instructional strategies that good classroom teachers use.
You'll recognize things that you already do in your
classroom (You're a good teacher! You're on T-net, aren't
you??).

Teaching Kindergarten, I'm not able to teach my kids how to
create outlines and how to take notes, BUT I DO use graphs,
Venn diagrams, and compare/contrast strategies!

The strategies that are discussed are strategies that
target higher level thinking skills. They are designed to
help kids THINK.

It was an easy read, with a lot of good research and
information. Not too expensive either.

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