Coaching Classroom Instruction

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THECLASSROOMSTRATEGIESSERIES Coaching Classroom Instruction is supported by the authors’ thorough understanding of coaching and learning “theory as well as their practical ideas about how theory can be applied in practice. . . . Using this book will enable a teacher coach to model the reflective learning dialogue process for trainee or experienced teachers to follow. ” —ANNE BROCKBANK, Director, Brockbank McGill Associates

Drawing upon a vast array of teacher-behavior studies, Marzano and his colleagues describe a developmental “approach to coaching and consulting intended to calibrate and encourage integration of forty-one researchbased teaching strategies into classroom instruction. ” —ARTHUR L. COSTA and ROBERT J. GARMSTON, Professors Emeriti, California State University; Cofounders, Center for Cognitive Coaching

This book will help educators raise their awareness of critical elements that impact the effectiveness of “classroom instruction. Regardless of one’s coaching model, awareness of these elements will contribute positively to the design-thinking process. ” —BOB and MEGAN TSCHANNEN-MORAN, Cofounders, Center for School Transformation

Visit marzanoresearch.com/classroomstrategies to download the reproducibles in this book. Marzano Research is a joint venture between Solution Tree and Dr. Robert J. Marzano. Marzano Research combines Dr. Marzano’s forty years of educational research with continuous action research in all major areas of schooling in order to provide effective and accessible instructional strategies, leadership strategies, and classroom assessment strategies that are always at the forefront of best practice.

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ROBERT J. MARZANO

Part of The Classroom Strategies Series, this clear, highly practical guide follows the series format, first summarizing key research and then translating it into recommendations for classroom practice.

JULIA A. SIMMS

Coaching Classroom Instruction demonstrates the importance of coaching—an essential component in effective teaching. Robert J. Marzano and Julia A. Simms, along with their colleagues, guide coaches in giving targeted feedback to teachers and identify specific steps that teachers can take to improve their knowledge and skill. This book includes 280 research-based classroom strategies, organized under forty-one elements of effective teaching, to help coaches move teachers through the five levels of Marzano’s teacher progress scale.

Coaching Classroom Instruction

Coaching Classroom Instruction

ROBERT J.

MARZANO

JULIA A.

SIMMS

Coaching Classroom Instruction with TOM ROY TAMMY HEFLEBOWER PHIL WARRICK

THECLASSROOMSTRATEGIESSERIES


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