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What percentage of a new unit should be spent on:

*Direct Instruction -

*Practicing and Deepening -

*Application Lessons -

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What percentage of a new unit should be spent on:

*Direct Instruction - 60%

*Practicing and Deepening - 35%

*Application Lessons - 5%

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Direct instruction is essential when new

content is being presented to students.

Conducting Direct Instruction Lessons

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Lecture only gives the brain 5% of retention after 24 hours of teaching.

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Brain is a FILTERING SYSTEM

The brain has a sensory register and it holds information for 30 seconds and then decides whether to keep or discard it.

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Direct Instruction

Previewing &

Vocabulary

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Poverty Level - Medicine Valley

40% (2021-2022)

DISCUSSION:

Do most of our students have general world knowledge, domain specific knowledge and knowledge in many domains?

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� Background Knowledge - Why

Whether or not readers understand a text depends far more on how much background knowledge and vocabulary they have relating to the topic than on how much they’ve practiced comprehension skills.

Willingham, 2018�

Recht and Leslie, 1987�

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Marzano - DIRECT INSTRUCTION

Previewing Information & Vocabulary

HOT BRAINS

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A Highway of Water

Panama Canal

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Secondary Example � Informative Text on Panama Canal

Where is Panama?
What is a canal?
Why was Panama chosen for a canal between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans?
When was the Panama Canal constructed?
What are locks? How do the locks work?
Why is the Panama Canal important?

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Location of the Country of Panama

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Canal�A canal is a human-made waterway that provides passage between two natural bodies of water.

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Panama Canal�The Panama Canal is a human-made waterway that provides passage between two natural bodies of water, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

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Map – Panama Canal

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Gatun Lake

Gatun Lake is an artificial lake that forms a major part of the Panama Canal.

Gatun Lake is 85 feet above sea level.

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locks

Lock

a device
used for raising and lowering boats and ships
between different water levels on river and canal waterways

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Ships traveling through Panama Canal

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Ships traveling through Panama Canal

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Important Trade Route Today

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Fun Facts – Panama Canal

Number of Vessels

1914 -- 1,000 vessels

2014 -- 14, 000 vessels

� Time to Cross Panama Canal

8 to 10 hours

Toll (Cost to use Panama Canal)

Average toll = $150,000

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Fun Fact – Panama Canal

The Panama Canal has been designated as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.

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Anticipatory Sets

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New Information to Students

Chunk and Chew

Process

Record and Represent

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Chunk and Chew

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Process

Want students to have

“HOT BRAINS”

Sight, Hearing and Touch -

makes up 90% of how the brain learns new material.

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Record and Represent

Brain is a filtering system -

like a sieve, getting rid of unimportant information

The brain has a sensory register and it

holds information for 30 seconds and then decides whether to keep or discard it.

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New Information GIST

The brain has a sensory register and it holds information for 30 seconds and then decides whether to keep or discard it.

About after a few minutes, must process information or the brain will start throwing out material. Use hooks and vocabulary.

The process will help grow dendrites so they

can remember it and it will be there the next day.�

We need to chunk the information we provide to the students,

Then allow them to process it, record the information, REPEAT.

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Group Discussion

Brainstorm ways you can improve our student’s background knowledge.

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For this year….

DIRECT INSTRUCTION - Emphasis on background knowledge and important vocabulary

TEACHER CLARITY - .84

CLARIFYING, SHARING AND UNDERSTANDING LEARNING INTENTIONS

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