The Essentials for Achieving Rigor Series
This practical series, by Robert J. Marzano and his team of highly skilled education experts, is designed to help teachers develop expertise on essential strategies that move students toward the higher order thinking skills required by today’s college and career readiness standards.
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Learning Sciences International has launched the Marzano Center Essentials for Achieving Rigor series, designed to help teachers develop expertise on essential strategies that move students toward the higherorder thinking skills required by today’s college and career readiness standards. Authored by Dr. Robert J. Marzano and his team of highly skilled education experts from the Marzano Center, the first books in the series were released in 2014, with more on the horizon in 2015.
Educators are looking for practical ways to effectively teach to rigorous college and career readiness standards, such as Common Core State Standards and other state or district standards. Each book in the Essentials for Achieving Rigor series provides explicit techniques to implement and then monitor a critical instructional strategy aligned with anchor standards, along with recommendations for adapting lessons to ensure that all students understand the content. With day-to-day examples to use as models for application in the classroom, as well as lists of common mistakes to avoid, this series is a must-have for schools and districts trying to align instruction to meet the challenges of increasingly rigorous academic standards. |
Creating & Using Learning Targets & Performance Scales: How Teachers Make Better Instructional Decisions
By Carla Moore, Libby H. Garst, and Robert J. Marzano
Students need to be able to understand learning goals embedded in performance scales and be capable of generating their own learning scales. This guide explores how teachers can provide rigorous learning goals to meet students’ needs and help them understand and generate performance scales.
ISBN: 9781941112014
Publication Date: June 2015
Organizing for Learning: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Interact Within Small Groups
By Deana Senn and Robert J. Marzano
To meet rigorous standards, students need to be able to engage and reflect on learning in groups. This guide explores explicit techniques for helping students actively process content in partner discussions, cooperative projects, and peer response grouping.
ISBN: 9781941112021
Publication Date: June 2015
Practicing Skills, Strategies, & Processes: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Develop Proficiency
By Kelly Harmon and Robert J. Marzano
Can your students process and respond to information quickly? This book provides explicit steps for teaching students to use new knowledge and processes swiftly and accurately and strategies to avoid making common mistakes.
ISBN: 9781941112076
Publication Date: May 2015
Engaging in Cognitively Complex Tasks: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Generate & Test Hypotheses Across Disciplines
By Deana Senn and Robert J. Marzano
Students must know how to investigate, experiment, and solve problems. This book explores techniques to teach students to generate and test hypotheses.
ISBN: 9781941112090
Publication Date: May 2015
Processing New Information: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Engage with Content
By Tzeporaw Sahadeo-Turner and Robert J. Marzano
Students must know how to retrieve critical information and comprehend key features of the content. This book helps teachers strategically impart the skills students need to authentically engage with content so they can effectively process the learning and store it for future use.
ISBN: 9781941112038
Publication Date: April 2015
Revising Knowledge: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Examine Their Deeper Understanding
By Ria A. Schmidt and Robert J. Marzano
As students work to deepen their own understanding of content, they are continually revising their knowledge. With this instructional guide, teachers learn how to help students revise their knowledge deliberately, using visual tools, written work, and academic notebooks.
ISBN: 9781941112083
Publication Date: March 2015
Examining Similarities & Differences: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Deepen Their Understanding
By Connie Scoles West and Robert J. Marzano
This guide provides explicit steps, examples, and adaptations to help educators effectively teach students how to examine similarities and differences.
ISBN: 9781941112052
Publication Date: January 2015
Identifying Critical Content: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Know What Is Important
By Deana Senn, Amber C. Rutherford, and Robert J. Marzano
Students need to be able to determine which content is critical, why it is important, how it connects to their existing knowledge, and when it will inform their future learning. This book explores techniques for mastering a crucial strategy—teaching students the skill of identifying critical content.
ISBN: 9781941112007
Publication Date: June 2014
By Carla Moore, Libby H. Garst, and Robert J. Marzano
Students need to be able to understand learning goals embedded in performance scales and be capable of generating their own learning scales. This guide explores how teachers can provide rigorous learning goals to meet students’ needs and help them understand and generate performance scales.
ISBN: 9781941112014
Publication Date: June 2015
Organizing for Learning: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Interact Within Small Groups
By Deana Senn and Robert J. Marzano
To meet rigorous standards, students need to be able to engage and reflect on learning in groups. This guide explores explicit techniques for helping students actively process content in partner discussions, cooperative projects, and peer response grouping.
ISBN: 9781941112021
Publication Date: June 2015
Practicing Skills, Strategies, & Processes: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Develop Proficiency
By Kelly Harmon and Robert J. Marzano
Can your students process and respond to information quickly? This book provides explicit steps for teaching students to use new knowledge and processes swiftly and accurately and strategies to avoid making common mistakes.
ISBN: 9781941112076
Publication Date: May 2015
Engaging in Cognitively Complex Tasks: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Generate & Test Hypotheses Across Disciplines
By Deana Senn and Robert J. Marzano
Students must know how to investigate, experiment, and solve problems. This book explores techniques to teach students to generate and test hypotheses.
ISBN: 9781941112090
Publication Date: May 2015
Processing New Information: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Engage with Content
By Tzeporaw Sahadeo-Turner and Robert J. Marzano
Students must know how to retrieve critical information and comprehend key features of the content. This book helps teachers strategically impart the skills students need to authentically engage with content so they can effectively process the learning and store it for future use.
ISBN: 9781941112038
Publication Date: April 2015
Revising Knowledge: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Examine Their Deeper Understanding
By Ria A. Schmidt and Robert J. Marzano
As students work to deepen their own understanding of content, they are continually revising their knowledge. With this instructional guide, teachers learn how to help students revise their knowledge deliberately, using visual tools, written work, and academic notebooks.
ISBN: 9781941112083
Publication Date: March 2015
Examining Similarities & Differences: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Deepen Their Understanding
By Connie Scoles West and Robert J. Marzano
This guide provides explicit steps, examples, and adaptations to help educators effectively teach students how to examine similarities and differences.
ISBN: 9781941112052
Publication Date: January 2015
Identifying Critical Content: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Know What Is Important
By Deana Senn, Amber C. Rutherford, and Robert J. Marzano
Students need to be able to determine which content is critical, why it is important, how it connects to their existing knowledge, and when it will inform their future learning. This book explores techniques for mastering a crucial strategy—teaching students the skill of identifying critical content.
ISBN: 9781941112007
Publication Date: June 2014
