Quality Education

Paper Summary:

This paper reviews the book "Classroom Instruction that Works: Researched-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement", written by Robert Marzano, Debra J. Pickering and Jane E. Pollock. It describes how the book offers advice to school administrators, teachers and parents as to how all school districts in the United States can improve the quality of the education of students. The paper suggests that with the correct teaching techniques and feedback and an empowered approach to student learning, many roadblocks to improving education can be overcome.

From the Paper:

"Thus, although the authors stress the need for frequent testing and data-driven analysis, ultimately through simple but proven teaching strategies such as the reinforcement of key concepts during the lesson, the authors offer the empowering idea that good teaching can make a difference. Merely because the text stresses testing as a means of reinforcement does not mean that the authors do not believe it is necessary to think outside of the conventional box of how students should learn in the classroom. In fact, the authors actively attempt to disabuse the readers of the text of such outmoded notions that environment or 'natural' (biological) ability alone determines student performance. The authors stress that even if the school and the other faculty members are lacking, even if student's home lives are undesirable, individual teaching performance and heightened expectations can still make a difference in a classroom, if the teachers make an effort to relate to students in a meaningful and ambitious fashion."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Marzano, Robert J., Debra J. Pickering & Jane E. Pollock. (2003) Classroom Instruction that Works: Researched- Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement. New York: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development.

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