Welcome to Yorktown Middle School

Marzano's Research Based Strategies

The Instructional Strategies - Summaries and Resources

Models/Programs That Include
Instructional Methods That Have
Proven To Be Successful With Low
Achieving Students

Transforming Teaching Through Technology

Strategies for Increasing Student Understanding

• Identifying Similarities and Differences
• Summarizing and Note-taking
• Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition
• Homework and Practice
• Nonlinguistic Representations
  • Using Internet Resources to Create Nonlinguistic Representations
• Cooperative Learning
  • Best Practices
  • Concept to Classroom
  • The Jigsaw Classroom
• Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback
• Generating and Testing Hypothesis
• Cues, Questions and Advanced Organizers

Bloom's Taxonomy

• Applying Bloom's Taxonomy
• Reading Comprehension and Bloom's
• Types of Questions Based on Bloom's

Webquest Resources

• Concept to Classroom - Why Webquests?
• The Webquest Page
• Best Webquests
• My Webquests
  Endangered Animals
  Energy

Differentiation

• Multiple Intelligences and Technology Integration
• Tapping into Multiple Intelligences
• Curriculum Differentiation
• Instructional Strategies that Support Differentiation
• Technology Tips for Differentiated Instruction
• Dr. Kathie Nunley's Layered Curriculum

• The enGauge 21st Century Skills
• Partnership for 21st Century Skills
• Listen to the Natives
• What's So Different About the 21st Century

Assessment

• Rubrics
  • Best Practices
  • RubiStar
• Portfolios
  • Best Practices
  • Electronic Portfolios
• Assessment Strategies to Promote Learning
• Healthier Testing Made Easy

Additional Resources

• Virginia Department of Education
• Portaportal
  (see me for guest password for my portal)
• De-licious
• Thinkfinity
• Quia
• Responsive Classroom