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The School Improvement Network increases student learning by improving teacher quality through professional development resources and services that are practical, researched-based, and proven to increase student achievement. We can either manage your entire school improvement program, which includes training, evaluation, and on-going implementation guidance; or, we can supplement your current efforts with our award winning video, online and CD-ROM-based professional development?every solution we offer features real teachers in real classrooms applying research-based practices. In business for over 15 years, the School Improvement Network has visited over 3,000 classrooms throughout North America helping thousands of school systems increase student learning.
Benefits of Classroom Instruction That Works:
- Give teachers instructional strategies that can easily be applied in the classroom.
- Using the research-based strategies, teachers can dramatically increase learning.
- 10 years of research by McREL and Robert Marzano show that standardized test scores can increase up to 45 percentile points.
- Strategies apply to any subject and every grade level.
- Facilitator Packs contain everything needed for group training.
- Teacher Packs supply each participant with follow-up and individual study materials--to dramatically increase classroom implementation.
In his Classroom Instruction that Works research, McREL and Robert Marzano found nine strategies that can be applied in any learning environment and result in significantly increased student learning. Based on their research, McREL found that the strategies can give average percentile point gains as high as 45% on student achievement tests!
The following table outlines the average percentile point gains on student achievement tests from each of the nine strategies:
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We have heard from many administrators that they are struggling to implement Marzano's work in the classroom. Like so many other school improvement panacea's, they do not want to get teachers excited about a new program only to have it die out a couple of months later.
The School Improvement Network's Classroom Instruction that Works program contains everything you need for 15 hours of training to effectively implement Marzano's strategies in your classrooms. Included is material for follow-up, in-depth and differentiated learning, and real elementary and secondary classroom examples. The School Improvement Network has been creating practical solutions for educators for over 15 years, taking the best research-based solutions and making them practical and applicable to every teacher. The Network's product development teams have visited thousands of schools, so that every product contains real classroom examples, with real teachers applying the principles with real students.
Our programs are designed to allow training throughout the year, with multiple milestones and many opportunities for follow up so that the strategies can become deeply embedded in the instructional delivery at your school. With the facilitator's manual, and the practioner's guidebook, you will have different activities at every training session, and specific and practical tactics that teachers can immediately implement in their lessons.
Compared to a traditional, one-time workshop, such Focused and on-going training is the most effective way that you can bring about teacher improvement and has a greater impact on student achievement than any other teacher characteristic besides the teacher's cognitive ability.
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"This is the way professional development should happen. The real value of research-based instructional strategies is their application in the classroom every day. The Video Journals, with their accompanying materials, give teachers the opportunity to experience best practices in action" Robert Marzano, 2004 |
The School Improvement Network's Classroom Instruction that Works program includes everything you need for 15 hours of focused, ongoing training in McREL's Classroom Instruction that Works to bring about real and lasting increased student learning, including:
- What Works in the Classroom video training program that shows real teachers implementing the strategies in real classrooms, with real students. 2 programs, 45-50 minutes each, with enough segments for 10 training sessions. Includes facilitator's guidebook and audio CD-ROM of the video program. The Elementary Edition contains elementary classroom examples, and the Secondary Edition contains only secondary classroom examplesgiving your teachers real-world applicability that is not available from any other source!
- Facilitator's Pack: Facilitator's manual (co-published with McREL, the originator of Marzano's work) and CD-ROM with Facilitator PowerPoint files.
- Teacher's Pack: Participant's manual (co-published with McREL) and CD-ROM with video segments of real classroom examples where teachers implement the strategies in urban, suburban, and rural classrooms unscripted and unrehearsed. You should purchase 1 additional Teacher's Pack for each participant in the training.
1. Use the What Works in the Classroom Instruction video programs to enhance the live training and to allow teachers to go back and review. These VHS or DVD programs thoroughly review all 9 strategies and show best-practice teaching. The videos are designed to be used in group settings, and have enough segments for 10 training sessions. Elementary and Secondary editions are available, and each contains examples from urban, rural, and suburban schools.
2. Use the Facilitator's Pack to guide the facilitator, introduce the concepts, and guide the discussion in each training session. The Facilitator's Pack includes the Facilitator's Manual for Classroom Instruction That Works and a CD-ROM with PowerPoint files.
3. Use the Participant's Manual and Teacher Edition CD-ROM to guide self-study, to show real examples of the strategies, and to provide implementation projects and activities that will increase use and improve teaching with the strategies. The manual provides rich and detailed follow-up for teachers AFTER each training session. Comprehensive learning activities for every strategy are included.
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DVD(secondary)
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A Participant's Manual For Classroom Instruction That Works
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