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Title: Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement by Robert J. Marzano, Jane E. Pollock, Debra J. Pickering ISBN: 0-87120-504-1 Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development Pub. Date: January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Helpful and Informative
Comment: Some people say this book is stating the obvious. These are the sort of people who tend to avoid professional journals, conferences, and in-services because, by golly, they already know how to teach. They learned all they needed to know getting their bachelor's degree and from their vast experience. That's baloney. While this book is full of things that good teachers do, it is laid out in a convenient format that places those practices in one handbook that is research based (as opposed to "I do because it works" even if it worked 10 years ago, but doesn't today). This text is a handy reference to have especially if you teach at-risk students.

Rating: 1
Summary: Chock Full of Obvious
Comment: Once again, I was hoodwinked by reviewers at Amazon.com who have no ability to discern good from average. This book provides a bunch of no-brain chapters -- (i.e. classifying is good) -- it's really a huge waste of money. The absolute best book I've read and I recommend to all discerning intellectual teachers is Grant Wiggins's Understanding By Design. This book was a waste of my good time and precious money. Never again will I so blindly trust all the 5 star givers on this site. Too many stooges, I think.

Rating: 5
Summary: "At last--research validating what good teachers already do"
Comment: I'll keep this short and sweet, and not summarize the contents of the book. Such can be found in other reviews, as well as the editorial synopsis. Instead, let me just suggest that "Classroom Instruction that Works” is a long overdue work that can be used in a three-fold manner.

First, it should be required reading for every new teacher. It clearly details for them what is effective in the classroom, regardless of grade level. There is little philosophy here. This is ‘meat and potatoes’ practicality.

Secondly, the research in this book should become an integral part of every teacher-evaluation process. It provides a model paradigm of excellence in teaching above and beyond the subjectivity extant in most evaluations today.

Finally, this book should be a personal read of every experienced teacher. I cannot express my feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment when I realized--I already do many of these things! While I know I can improve in many areas because of reading this work, much of my teaching was validated by sound research, and that felt good!

It is my hope that this material will be presented at many of the national education conferences I attend each year--in fact, I plan on using much of this in my own presentations.

The book is nicely organized, backed by solid research, and utilizes illustrative scenarios which make complex methodology very understandable. And isn't this the goal of every classroom teacher?

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Dr. J.L. Parks
Georgetown Middle School
Georgetown, KY

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