by mlicausi | Apr 29, 2018 | Assessment, Common Core, Differentiation, ELA (English Language Arts), Free Resources, Gifted and Talented Resources, Grading, Learning Goals and Scales, Marzano Scales
If you’re using differentiation in the classroom, how do you organize your students? The purpose of differentiation is to keep students engaged! Kids that are engaged learn more, learn faster, and feel better about them selves. When content is too easy or too hard,...
by mlicausi | Feb 4, 2018 | Common Core, Differentiation, ELA (English Language Arts), Gifted and Talented Resources, goal setting, Learning Goals and Scales, Marzano Scales, Math, Most Successful Teaching Strategies
Have you ever struggled to engage your students attention in a lesson? Most kids decide on their interest or engagement level in the first minute. If they feel unfamiliar, overwhelmed, or don’t see the relevance of content they can immediately turn off. You find...
by mlicausi | Nov 21, 2017 | Assessment, ELA (English Language Arts), Free Resources, Grading, Learning Goals and Scales, Marzano Scales, Parent Communication
Have you ever felt like the grades you were giving students were not carrying the messages you wanted to send? I used to feel like I knew my students pretty well. After all, I spent 7 hours a day observing and interacting with them. When it came time for assessments,...
by mlicausi | Jan 7, 2017 | Assessment, ELA (English Language Arts), Learning Goals and Scales, Marzano Scales, Math, Professional Development, Teacher Evaluations
Does your school district use the Marzano Framework to evaluate its teachers? Are you anxious when you log into iObservations and take a peek at what’s expected of you? If you’re feeling stressed about what seems like a very complex system, stayed tuned for the next...
by mlicausi | Jul 16, 2016 | Assessment, Common Core, Common Core Math, Differentiation, ELA (English Language Arts), Learning Goals and Scales, Marzano Scales, Professional Development
Have you ever come across an amazing teaching idea, but you just couldn’t get it organized enough to use it consistently? Maybe you used it but it didn’t seem to bring you the results you were expecting? Maybe it was more complicated than you...
by mlicausi | Apr 5, 2016 | Common Core, Common Core Math, Differentiation, ELA (English Language Arts), Grading, Learning Goals and Scales, Marzano Scales, Math, Most Successful Teaching Strategies, Professional Development, Teacher Evaluations
With the explosion of Marzano framework for teacher evaluations, and Marzano Scales refocusing classroom instruction, I get a lot of questions from teachers trying to figure out how to write their own scales to meet district or state requirements. A few months ago I...
