Becoming a Reflective Teacher (Classroom Strategies) - Softcover

Marzano, Dr Robert J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0983351236 ISBN 13: 9780983351238

Publisher: Marzano Resources, 2012

Synopsis

Becoming a Reflective Teacher is a practical guide for educators who wish to hone their teaching strategies. Just as successful athletes must identify personal strengths and weaknesses, set goals, and engage in focused practice to meet their goals, author and educator Robert Marzano asserts that teachers must also examine their practices, set growth goals, and use focused practice and feedback to successfully educate students and equip them with the tools to thrive academically. In the latest edition to the Classroom Strategies Series, Marzano continues to present the most useful instructional research and theory-based strategies to help educators enhance student achievement. Specifically, Becoming a Reflective Teacher addresses how teachers can combine a model of effective instruction with goal setting, focused practice, focused feedback, and observations and discussions of teaching to improve their instructional practices. This book is based around the framework featured in The Art and Science of Teaching and includes a detailed compendium of over 270 strategies organized under forty-one elements of effective teaching. It also features comprehension questions at the end of each chapter, with answers in appendix A. As with all books in the series, chapter 1 details the research and theory behind the book's topic. It includes a brief history of reflective practice and uses historical figures to show how such practice is critical to gaining expertise. This chapter also lays out the organization of the framework, featuring three categories of lesson segments, the related design questions, and the forty-one elements of effective teaching. Chapter 2 breaks down these three categories of lesson segments (involving routine events, addressing content, and enacted on the spot) into the related design questions for each. For each question, the authors include a vignette showing how to apply the discussed elements in the classroom. Chapter 3 discusses setting growth goals. Th

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It is with the greatest enthusiasm that I share my endorsement of the "cannot-be-published-soon-enough" text, Becoming a Reflective Teacher. The content integrates and reflects the depth, breadth and longevity of research on teaching and learning. Truly, it is both research-based and grounded in and for practice.

Firmly grounded in both research and practice, Becoming a Reflective Teacher offers an enormous volume of specific strategies and tools for addressing reflective questions aligned with specific dimensions of effective lesson design and teaching practice. This book is an invaluable resource for all teachers in their quest to continuously advance teaching practice and student learning. It will serve well as the focus of study with immediate application by individual teachers, collaborative instructional teacher teams, and administrators who understand the centrality of reflective practice for continuous instructional improvement.

Timely, accessible, and immediately applicable, Becoming a Reflective Teacher is sure to invigorate the passion, persistence, and practice of teachers everywhere! -- Jennifer York-Barr "Professor of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis"

About the Author:

Robert J. Marzano, PhD, is cofounder and CEO of Marzano Research Laboratory in Englewood, Colorado. A leading researcher in education, he is a speaker, trainer, and author of more than 30 books and 150 articles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Marzano Resources
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0983351236
• ISBN 13: 9780983351238
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 256