A Clear Focus For The Lesson Analysis

8 Strategies Robert Marzano and John Hattie agree on

Question 1

A Clear Focus for the Lesson- While the importance of having clarity about what you want students to learn and specified objectives for each lesson is definitely not new to me, one of the tips in this strategy attracted me and could be very useful in the future. Learning that posing questions at the start of a lesson is an effective way to focus students, could really help me deal with reading comprehension lessons. So far in my teaching experience, reading a text with students is the most challenging for me, since it is hard to keep students attentive and check what they have learned as well. Posing a question that summarizes the essence of what students need to know at the end

Usually, teachers check answers on the board without really checking what students have actually written in their notebooks, or pay attention to whether students are working or not without checking the quality of work. Unfortunately, I as well have done that in my lessons. The students receive most of their feedback when they are given back their test scores, but students need to be given feedback while there is still time to improve. Now that I have a smaller class I get a chance to really interact with students and give them more individual help and feedback that includes corrections. In big classroom it is still possible to apply this strategy by perhaps choosing each lesson a group of students to focus on, walking around the class while students are working and asking students to submit homework/ do a quiz before a

There are many teaching strategies, and it is important to acknowledge what experts agree on and consider the use these strategies in my teaching. All of the strategies elaborated in the article were not completely new to me and were discussed during different courses at Achva to a certain degree (especially application of knowledge and engaging with content), but certain tips within the strategies were surprising to read and are worth exploring. For example one of the tips that I find difficult to apply is sharing your objectives with students. I tried writing the objectives of the lesson on the board in the beginning of the lesson for students to see, but students commented on the objectives or were occupied with them (or a certain task), instead of working toward reaching them. Sometimes the objectives discouraged them if they didn’t like the topic (grammar for example) or stressed them out if they found them challenging. Perhaps there is a better way to share objectives with students, which I hadn’t tried