Robert J. Marzano

Learn how to ask targeted questions to enhance students’ reasoning skills and increase rigor in classrooms.

Usher in the new era of school reform. The authors help you transform your schools into organizations that take proactive steps to prevent failure and ensure student success. Using a research-based five-level hierarchy along with leading and lagging indicators, you'll learn to assess, monitor, and confirm the effectiveness of your schools. Each chapter includes what actions should be taken at each level.

Cultivate a positive mindset, and choose productive actions by examining your emotions and interpretations in the classroom and understanding factors that influence your decisions.

Align instruction and assessment with the new science standards, and create proficiency scales to plan all types of lessons.

Discover a results-driven framework—based on a six-level hierarchy of student needs and goals—that you can use to provide engaging instruction to students.

Key research and practical strategies enable all teachers to create a classroom environment where engagement is the norm, not the exception.

Written for classroom instructors, Becoming a Reflective Teacher introduces 280 research-based strategies that are expanded on in its companion book Coaching Classroom Instruction, written for leaders and coaches. This two-book set is designed to allow classroom teachers and building- and district-level administrators to work together to gain a united, big-picture view of how to implement strategies for school improvement.

This title is a greatly expanded volume of the original The Art and Science of Teaching, offering a framework for substantive change based on Dr. Marzano’s 50 years of education research.