Marzano Teacher Factors

Teacher factors:

·      Continue learning and trying best practice.

·      Passion and care for the students and the job

·      Building relationships with students

·      Adjusts teaching to what the students need

Marzano

·      Instructional strategies

·      Classroom management

·      Classroom curriculum design

a) Which factors matched what you predicted? b) Which factors didn’t match?  Which ones did you miss? Which ones did you include that weren’t in his list?  Why do you think that is?  Make sense of those differences.

            A few of the factors that I predicted matched what Marzano says are the teacher level factors. We both agreed that best practice and instructional strategies are important for student learning. I’m not sure if management would include student relationships but I am surprised he didn’t talk more about building relationships. This also ties into children’s learning principals and how they need to know what the routines are and feel safe.  I didn’t really think of putting classroom curriculum design in with teacher level factors but I could see how it could fit. Even if there was an agreed upon curriculum all teachers don’t teach it the same or to the same rigor. It would be interesting to read more about grouping procedures/ teacher behaviors that Creemers said was an effective factor and why he put that as number one.