Classroom Instruction That Works for the 21st Century Learner

ASCD's best-selling book Classroom Instruction That Works and it's nine core instructional strategies have influenced instruction around the world and spawned spin-offs focusing on assessment and grading, classroom management, English language learners, and technology.  

If you could help rewrite Classroom Instruction That Works today, what would you change?

Would you include more guidance for working with different learning styles and types of learners? How administrators can use CITW? Give more attention to 21st century learning skills like communication, collaboration, and innovation? Or . . . ?

If you're using CITW, let us know what you think. And if you've blogged on CITW or have a Web site you rely on for practical information for using the CITW framework, send us the link!

Comments

[Pat Munyan]

ASCD's best-selling book Classroom Instruction That Works and it's nine core instructional strategies have influenced instruction around the world and spawned spin-offs focusing on assessment and grading, classroom management, English language learners, and technology.

It's = it is. This should its nine core...

[Pat Munyan]

And my post should have read...This should BE its nine core...

Sorry for the omission.

[Susan Meier]

It would be helpful to me if the Marzano nine included sample lesson sequences. I know Marzano has linked with Harvey Silver in the past. Silver's Thoughtful Education lesson ideas are packaged in a way that we can use. However, one of the weakest for us was Compare/Contrast, which they collaborated on, while one of the strongest is New American Lecture.

I would love to see lesson packages the way Silver does it, in mini workshops for teachers, that correspond to the Marzano nine. That would be some specific lesson models for teaching using similarities and differences, including the introductory steps for working with staff.

These packages from Thoughtful Education (no I'm not affiliated or doing a commercial) are exactly what I need for working with staff to bring about new learning without hiring consultants or participating in drive-by professional development.

If the McRel folks could devise these one-hour workshop packages for staffs to collaborate on, many more principals like me would be able to get the hay to the horses during regular staff meeting time.

[Dee Fabry]

I teach a graduate level course that uses CITWs. I require a portfolio of lessons the teachers develop both individually and collaboratively. They implement the lessons, share what worked and what didn't and end the course with a resource of successful lessons. One of the activities we do is to align the 9 instructional strategies to effective teacher qualities (from Stronge's Qualities of Effective Teachers, another invaluable ASCD book). It adds another level of thinking about how the instructional strategies impact effective teaching and learning.

[Matt Kuhn]

I am one of the coauthors of “Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works.” We love to see how technology continues to evolve and add to the body of work in the book. You can find more Tech-CITW resources at http://delicious.com/mattscottkuhn/bundle:CITW. BTW, check out McREL’s blog at http://mcrel.typepad.com/mcrel_blog.

[Classroom Technology]

Do these instructional strategies include ITL and TGT, specifically Instrumented Team Learning and Teams, Games and Tournaments? My teachers in high school really exposed us to these learning environments.