marzano’s teacher evaluation instrument

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FOUR Domains

ClassrooClassroom m

StrategiStrategies and es and

BehavioBehaviorsrs

2Planning and Planning and PreparingPreparing

Reflecting on Reflecting on

TeachingTeaching

CollegialCollegiality and ity and ProfessiProfessionalismonalism

Domain 1Classroom Strategies and Behavior

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Using Primary Source Photographs

Remember this example of ‘Social Studies as Inquiry’?

Teaching history best practices -- view video #4

Social Studies as Inquiry parallels these sections of Marzano’s evaluation instrument very nicely.Here’s how a lesson like that fits into the new teacher evaluation tool.

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Group Analysis

1. Teacher organized students into groups for group analysis of historical photos

2. She established ‘need’ by asking them to use a graphic organizer to answer ‘who, what, when, where’ of the photos.

Both of these go along with Marzano’s element #21 “The teacher organizes the class in such a way as to facilitate students working on complex tasks that require them to generate and test hypotheses”.

Third graders analyzing photos as a group -- view video #1

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3. From the photos, students generated their own questions and naturally also generated their own hypotheses.

4. Next the teacher facilitated whole classroom discussion where each group shared its hypotheses about their photo. This in turn generated more questions as students tested, evaluated, discarded, or confirmed their hypotheses through the group discussion.

Both of these go along with Marzano’s element #22 “The teacher engages students in complex tasks (e.g. decision making, problem solving, experimental inquiry, investigation) that require them to generate and test hypotheses.”

Third graders being prompted to think critically -- view video #2

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5. Lastly, the teacher connects the source by reading aloud the picture book from which she had gotten the photos used in the group analysis.

This goes along with Marzano’s element #23 “The teacher acts as resource provider and guide as students engage in cognitively complex tasks.”

Third grade teacher providing the resource -- view video #3

No social studies standards in Common Core Teachers can assess content knowledge by having students write explanatory essaysUse Common Core Standards and guidelines for writing

ASSESSMENT

ASSESSMENT

Build on your previous use of Debbie Diller's Literacy StationsMake them content specific for social studies to build both language and content. Here are some station ideas:

LITERACY STATIONS

LITERACYSTATIONS

Social Studies Content Literacy Stations

genre reading and writing-expository-informational-persuasive -essay-functional (maps, time

lines, graphs)-History Mystery-fiction-biography

Social Studies Content Literacy Stations

graphic organizersspellingvocabularyvisual image analysis (political

cartoons, historical illustrations, photos, artifacts, video)

Cloze activitieslistening station

-song-audio textbook-poem-drama

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ESResources

Marzano Teacher Evaluation Instrumenthttp://www.marzanoevaluation.com/files/Day_1/LearningMap_4Domains.pdf

Third Graders Analyzing Historical Sourceshttp://teachinghistory.org/best-practices/examples-teaching/23724

Your Harcourt Social Studies supplemental materials have many of these built in. Check out the Homework and Practice Book, but also the Reading Intervention Book, the ELL Book, and Social Studies in Action.

marzano’s teacher evaluation instrument

SOCIAL STUDIES AS INQUIRY