Professional Development

Effective Instructional/Assessment Techniques, Methods, and Strategies (including ESL and Classroom Management)

Effective Schooling Research

The major findings regarding Effective Instructional/Assessment Techniques, Methods, and Strategies (including ESL and Classroom Management) include the following:

  • Effective educators have a wide variety of instructional and assessment techniques, methods, and strategies at their disposal (including ESL and Classroom Management).

Practical Implications

The Effective Instructional/Assessment Techniques, Methods, and Strategies (including ESL and Classroom Management) that have proven time-after-time to significantly improve student learning are:

  • Identifying Similarities and Differences*
  • Summarizing and Note Taking*
  • Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition*
  • Providing Nonlinguistic Representations*
  • Using Cooperative Learning*
  • Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback*
  • Generating and Testing Hypothesis*
  • Providing Cues, Questions and Advance Organizers*
  • Identifying Effective ESL Learning Techniques, Methods, and Strategies*
  • Establishing Clear Classroom Management Rules, Procedures, and Fair and Consistent Disciplinary Consequences*

*Marzano et al, MCREL

Workshop Training Profile

The Effective Instructional/Assessment Techniques, Methods, and Strategies (including ESL and Classroom Management) workshop training focuses on the acquisition of the knowledge, skills, and understandings of those research-based effective instructional/assessment techniques, methods, and strategies identified above under Practical Implications. The work of Robert Marzano and his colleagues at MCREL guide each training workshop. (Dimensions of Learning (DOL); Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement; Classroom Instruction That Works with English Language Learners (ESL); Classroom Management That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Every Teacher); Classroom Assessment and Grading That Work; and Assessing Student Outcomes: Performance Assessment Using the Dimensions of Learning Model.