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=Research-Based Instructional Practices: Defining and Sharing What Works=


 * Which instructional strategies are most appropriate for the students that we are teaching?
 * How do we come to know this? How do we capture it best? How should we respond?
 * Who are "the experts" that we rely upon for guidance?
 * What differentiates an expert from someone who has expertise?
 * How might we leverage the collective intelligence and experience of our own learning community to become better teachers?
 * What sort of support do we need as we transform learning into practice?

These are some of the essential questions that will guide our work as we explore best instructional strategies, test what we have learned, and collaborate to uncover which methods best meet the needs of **//our//** students. Our study begins in response to the research disseminated by Robert Marzano, Debra Pickering, and Jane Pollack in their text, **//Classroom Instruction that Works//**. It will be informed by a [|wide variety of other sources] over time and in response to what we discover through our own research and practice. Together, we will share our understandings of these findings, what is most effective about our current practice, and new ideas that we generate together as our understandings evolve.

This space is intended as a support tool for teachers involved in this initiative. Here, you will find all of the resources provided to you by myself and others during our sessions as well as supplemental materials that you may use to gain further information and enhance the work that you do with learners each day. Please visit often and contribute as much as you can! We all have knowledge to share and much to learn from one another.

**Please begin by visiting these pages:**
Session A: Goal Setting, Essential Questions, Providing Feedback Session B: Similarities and Differences, Comparing, Classifying, Metaphors,and Analogies Session C: Nonlinguistic Representation Session D: Questions, Cues, and Cooperative Learning Materials for an Introduction to Guided Reading: Session 1 Centers for Writing Instruction (available in pdf format)
 * Vocabulary Resources: [|The Six Step Process for Teaching Academic Vocabulary] and [|Tools and Resources I've Bookmarked in my Travels]

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