Can your students record and represent what they've learned? Students must know how to effectively interact with new knowledge. To do that, they must be able to summarize what they've read, analyze text for specific characteristics, and create organized, succinct written works that demonstrate a deep understanding of the content. Based on the earlier work of Dr. Robert J. Marzano, Recording

Academic standards call for increased rigor, but simply raising complexity is not enough. Students must also be able to deliberately revise their own knowledge. They need to know how to use visual tools, written work, and academic notebooks to make revisions that help to deepen their understanding of the content. Based on the earlier work of Dr. Robert J. Marzano, Revising Knowledge: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Examine Their Deeper Understanding explores explicit techniques for mastering a crucial strategy of instructional practice: teaching students to revise their...