High-leverage
Instructional Strategies
In recent years many
schools have played close attention to the rich instructional strategies
correlated with high achievement cited by Robert Marzano in What Works in
Schools: Translating Research and Action. It is no surprise that the
classroom document camera can serve as a friendly co-traveler in our effort to
support many of Marzano's strategy suggestions, highlighted in bold below. The
document camera enables us, in a richly visual way, to:
- highlight similarities and differences (classifying, comparing, contrasting, using metaphors, and employing analogies)
- model effective note taking (demonstrating, summarizing and distilling)
- display nonlinguistic representations (pictures, physical models, realia, graphic organizers, charts, and graphs)
- promote cooperation (team activities, small group problem solving)
- provide feedback (assessment as learning, assessment for learning)
- generate and test hypotheses (using visualized experiments)
- Launch questions and cues, or display advanced organizers
The classroom document
camera is no featherweight in the important sport of full-contact learning—it’s
a heavyweight contender.
