The Pride
PHS Staff Bulletin March 18 - 23
Our Mission:
The New Art and Science of Teaching
Chapter 6: Using Strategies That Appear in All Types of Lessons
Element 16: Highlighting Critical Information
Highlighting critical information strategies involve the teacher pointing out what is important and what is less important in the information he or she addresses in class. The need for these strategies stems from the fact that school bombards students with a myriad of incoming information even within the confines of a single class period. Students hear the teacher, and other students, talking about the content; they see pictures depicting the content and observe demonstrations. Not all of this information is equally important. The strategies within this element help students attend to the most important content. Highlighting critical information strategies are:
- Repeating the most important content
- Asking questions that focus on critical information
- Using visual activities
- Using narrative activities
- Using tone of voice, gestures, and body position
- Using pause time
- Identifying critical-input experiences
- Using explicit instruction to convey critical content
- Providing advanced organizers to cue critical content
- Using what students already know to cue critical content"
--from The New Art & Science of Teaching,
Robert J. Marzano
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