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Marzano Instructional Strategies

Dr. Robert Marzano, author of Classroom Instruction That Works, recently released research into just how powerful clickers can be in the classroom. Please take a few minutes to [|read this article from Edutopia] summarizing what he found. His research substantiates what we have preached for many years now...clicker technology works to improve student achievement when it is in the hands of well-trained teachers. Here's just a snippet from the article...

"Marzano recently divided 85 educators into two groups: One taught a lesson to students using interactive whiteboards (and a student response system) and the other taught the same lesson using standard, more traditional tools. His data was undeniable: Of those classrooms employing the boards and using the voting technology, there was an immediate increase of 17 percent in scores. The sweet spot, he says -- the perfect storm of student achievement, according to his findings -- was when a teacher was trained to use the technology, had used it for 2 years, and did so 75 percent of the time. That profile shows a whopping 29 percentile gain in scores." It is easy to be wowed by flash files, fancy clip art, or "activities" that many times catch our eye when looking at interactive technologies. However, I hope that you will look at the research, do some investigating, and see for yourself which tools have the biggest impact on student achievement and learning. I'd love to be a part of your investigation and to demonstrate how powerful our interactive suite can be.