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    Nine Best Practices that Make the Difference
    Nine Best Practices that Make the Difference
    Nine Best Practices that Make the Difference
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    Nine Best Practices that Make the Difference

    By Brian M. Pete and Robin J. Fogarty

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    Through a meta-analysis of studies on instructional strategies, Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock (2001) have identified nine families of strategies that significantly increase student achievement.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateSep 15, 2015
    ISBN9781510701205
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      Nine Best Practices that Make the Difference - Brian M. Pete

      Family of Strategies: Finding Similarities and Differences (1SD)

      Comparing and Contrasting

      A Story to Tell

      The Mustang has the ‘five on the floor’ gear box that I want. It’s in my price range, and they have it on the lot. On the other hand, the Firebird has the leather interior, the larger trunk space, and I love the color.

      Do I tell the truth, which is gonna get me in big trouble, or do I avoid the conversation and delay the inevitable?

      Synonyms–Comparing and Contrasting

      similar and different

      alike and different

      ying and yang

      matching and not matching

      same and different

      aligned and not aligned

      Life is full of decisions—big and little ones. These decisions require careful consideration that often involves comparing and contrasting various elements. Finding similarities and differences is a skill that can be practiced and learned.

      Things You Need to Know

      What’s It All About?

      Comparing and contrasting is an analysis skill of finding similarities and differences. You compare the attributes that are alike, but contrast the ones that are different. Comparing and contrasting is like shopping: both require careful consideration, both involve looking at similarities and differences, and both often result in a final judgment.

      Comparing and contrasting is like shopping.

      To analyze by comparing and contrasting is to find how things are the same or different. When comparing and contrasting, two patterns often emerge: the ab-ab pattern and the aaa-bbb pattern.

      In comparing and contrasting the two characters of the boy and the man in the novel The Old Man and the Sea, the ab-ab pattern calls for comments about one character, followed immediately by parallel comments about the other character. For example, The boy cared deeply about his old friend. The old man cared as deeply about his young friend. Using the aaa-bbb pattern, there might be a full paragraph about the characteristics of the boy, followed by another paragraph about the various attributes of the old man. For example,

      "The boy admires the old man’s knowledge of the sea and he listens ever so intently to everything said. The young one wants to learn to be a great fisherman, just like his friend and mentor.

      The old man, on the other hand, loves the company of his young friend and enjoys his role as the wise old sage. He knows this youngster has what it takes to become a great fisherman. He tries to show him the ropes as only he knows them."

      Why Bother?

      Implications for students are numerous. They need to know how to analyze—how to take an idea apart to look at its inner core. In doing analysis exercises, students find similarities and differences as they learn to think critically.

      [Students] need to know how to analyze.

      A Tiny Transfer to Try

      One Stop Shop

      Set up participants in pairs. Using the idea of two kinds of shopping (traditional in-store shopping and non-traditional on-line shopping), practice writing the two narrative patterns of comparing and contrasting: pattern ab-ab and pattern aaa-bbb. Partner A uses the ab-ab pattern to compare and contrast one characteristic at a time, while partner B uses the aaa-bbb pattern first to describe one type of shopping fully, and then to describe the other type. Compare the two patterns: ab-ab with aaa-bbb. Share your paragraphs. Compare and contrast how the two patterns are alike and different. Discuss which might be easier or harder, in your opinion for your students.

      Classifying

      A Story to Tell

      As an illustration of the skill of classifying, the teacher asks her middle schoolers, How to you arrange the clothes in your closet? Tell a partner. Here are some of the responses she might receive. Summer clothes and Winter clothes . . . Heavy clothes and Light clothes By Color. All the blues together, all the blacks and so on. By Long sleeves, short sleeves; long pants, shorts . . . By Work clothes! Play clothes. Dressy clothes! I have three categories: Fat, Skinny, and In-between!

      Synonyms–Classifying

      sort

      organize

      group

      match

      pair

      filter

      arrange

      compartmentalize

      divide

      categorize

      Finally, one young man said, very directly, I have those that are hanging and those that have fallen on the floor.

      The arrangements are not only creative and somewhat humorous but also offer a good illustration of how the brain searches for patterns and tries to organize things into meaningful

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