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=Welcome to CI498B: Classroom-based Instruction That Works=

Instructors: Dr. Kris Dewitt kld26@psu.edu

Rebecca Burns rsw136@psu.edu

Days: M-F June 21, 2010 - June 25, 2010 Time: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Location: 236 Chambers Building, University Park Campus Text: [|Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement, (2001), Marzano, Robert J., Debra J. Pickering, & Jane E. Pollock]

This Wiki will capture our week together and provide a lasting record of the experience as well as various resources for future use. Please feel free to contribute.

//Central to the vision are competent teachers empowered to make principled judgments and decisions on their students' behalf. They possess broad and deep understanding of children, the subjects they teach, the nature of learning and schooling, and the world around them. They exemplify the critical thinking they strive to develop in students, combining tough-minded instruction with a penchant for inquiry. Students admire and remember them many years after leaving school, since such competence and dedication in teaching are unfortunately not as common as they should be. Competent teachers are careful not to bore, confuse, or demean students, pushing them instead to interact with important knowledge and skill. Such teachers interpret the understandings students bring to and develop during lessons; they identify students' misconceptions, and question their surface responses that mask true learning (The Holmes Group, 1986, pp. 28-29).//