The Pride
PHS Staff Bulletin December 17 - 21
Our Mission:
The New Art and Science of Teaching
Chapter 4: Conducting Practicing and Deepening Lessons
"Element 9: Using Structured Practice Sessions
Practice is a staple of effective teaching, but it is commonly misunderstood. One obvious consideration is that practice applies to procedural knowledge, not declarative knowledge. That is, students need to practice skills, strategies, and processes. They do not need to practice details, generalizations, principles and concepts. Rather, students deepen such declarative knowledge through other types of activities addressed in this chapter like examining similarities and differences.
Another consideration is that all procedural knowledge progresses through three stages: (1) cognitive, (2) associative, and (3) autonomous. At the cognitive stage, students are simply learning about the skill, strategy, or process. At this point, they are learning declarative knowledge. Students aren't executing anything at this stage. Rather, they are trying to understand what you do first, what you do next, and so on. At the associative stage, students are trying out the strategy and at the autonomous phase, students are fine tuning their ability to execute the procedure and developing fluency in its use."
The specific strategies related to this element appear in the table below.
--from The New Art & Science of Teaching,
Robert J. Marzano
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