Description: What Works in Classroom Instruction is based on the work of McRel and Robert Marzano. These powerful strategies have been shown to have 22-45 percentile point gains in student achievement. The Participant's Manual is the perfect companion to our Video training program (Stock number 1305) and Teacher Edition CD-ROM (Stock number TECD1305), both of which contain lots of real classroom examples of teachers implementing the strategies in elementary, secondary, urban, rural, and suburban schools--so that your teachers can have the individual study materials that are critical to achieve classroom implementation. Facilitators should use the accompanying Facilitator's Manual (Stock number BMC-D10181) Contains Classroom Instruction that Works Participant's Manual More Details about the Materials: The Facilitator's and Practitioner's manuals are designed to allow you to have impactful training sessions on each of the strategies. The manuals are divided into the following parts to introduce all of the strategies so that teachers will be able to help students at every step of the learning process: Introduction to the Research What knowledge will students learn? Which strategies will provide evidence that students have learned that knowledge? Providing Feedback Providing Recognition Which strategies will help students acquire and integrate that knowledge? Cues and Questions Advance Organizers Nonlinguistic Representation Summarizing Note Taking Cooperative Learning Reinforcing Effort Which strategies will help students practice, review, and apply that knowledge? Identifying similarities and differences Homework Practice Generating and testing hypotheses Each strategy is presented in an easy to understand format, with the following sections for each strategy: Generalizations from the Research, Recommendations for Classroom Practice Key Points Background information - from Amzon