Exclusive Providers of Marzano Evaluation PD
Onsite or live virtual: Put the best academic research into action
“There’s just not a lot of time for observation. We compacted the elements into broader categories. It’s much more efficient and can be effectively used even with two or three observations.”
Dr. Robert J. Marzano
Onsite and Live Virtual Professional
Development Sessions
- District Leaders & Observers
- Additional PD for Observers
- Core PD for Teachers
- Non-Evaluative PD for Teachers
- Virtual PD
PD for Districts and Observers
Title: Overview and Inter-Rater Agreement* [CORE PD]
Audience:
Observers
Description:
Day 1: Introduction This session focuses on an overview of the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model, which includes a comprehensive and research-based description of teacher effectiveness that measures the impact of teachers using observation protocols, classroom artifacts, student work, and professional growth plans. The session teaches district leaders, principals, and all staff who observe or support teachers to focus on the 23 core competencies to measure effectiveness and guide a teacher from standards-based planning through selection and implementation of research-based instructional strategies, to awareness of conditions for learning in the classroom and professional responsibilities.
Day 2: Inter-Rater Agreement This session focuses on five critical conditions for building teacher expertise and learning the process for using protocols to observe classroom instruction. As part of that practice, participants will utilize the protocol to observe classroom videos and determine which strategies are being used.
Day 3: Scoring and Deepening Calibration* This session focuses on utilizing the five-step process to accurately score teachers, including evaluating standards-based lesson plans, observing classroom instruction, and evaluating student evidence, as well as providing feedback using the scale.
* Optional: A scoring assessment can be added at the end of the session.
Prerequisite:
None
Capacity:
On-Site: 50 participants per session
Live Virtual: 35 participants per session
Title: Focused Non-Classroom Instructional Support Personnel Evaluation Model
Audience:
Observers
Description:
Training is designed for personnel who evaluate certified/licensed teachers whose primary role is to support students and classroom teachers. As a result, districts can determine which personnel should be evaluated with the model and how to evaluate them.
Prerequisite:
None
Capacity:
On-Site: 50 participants per session
Live Virtual: 35 participants per session
Additional PD for Observers
Title: Side-By-Side Coaching for Observers
Audience:
Observers
Description:
During these on-site coaching sessions, an Instructional Empowerment (IE) expert consultant facilitates a team of one to five administrators in the classroom observation and feedback process. The consultant and administrative team participate in a briefing to establish goals for the coaching session, followed by classroom visits. Observers then share their observation data and learn ways to provide specific feedback to teachers and brainstorm next steps in improving their practice as instructional leaders.
Prerequisite:
None
Core PD for Teachers
Title: Making the Transition
Audience:
Teachers
Description:
This session highlights the similarities and differences with the 2014 model and focuses on a general overview of the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model. This includes descriptions of teacher effectiveness that measures the impact of teachers using observation protocols, classroom artifacts, portfolios, student work, and professional growth plans.
Prerequisite:
2014 Domain 1 Framework session
Capacity:
On-Site: 50 participants per session
Live Virtual: 35 participants per session
Title: Introduction and Overview
Audience:
Teachers
Description:
This session focuses on an overview of the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model, which includes a comprehensive, robust, and research-based description of teacher effectiveness that measures the impact of teachers using observation protocols, classroom artifacts, student work, and professional growth plans. The training introduces the 23 core competencies to measure effectiveness and guide a teacher from standards-based planning through selection and implementation of research-based instructional strategies.
Prerequisite:
None
Capacity:
On-Site: 50 participants per session
Live Virtual: 35 participants per session
Non-Evaluative PD for Teachers
Title: Essentials for Achieving Rigor
Audience:
Teachers
Description:
Successful standards-based instruction starts with teaching students foundational knowledge and skills that can be built upon throughout the instructional cycle. This type of instruction requires extended processing and application of knowledge and asks students to go beyond what is taught by asking questions and experimenting with their new knowledge.
Teachers can strengthen the instructional strategies they currently utilize and uncover other strategies and criteria required to reach rigorous standards. During these hands-on sessions, teachers will create a toolbox filled with the instruction strategies, tools, and resources that are the focus of each session.
Sessions include:
- Monitoring for Learning or Tracking for Real-Time Learning,
- Core Instruction
- Teach to Reach for Core Instruction
- Deepening Core Instruction
- Teach to Reach for Deepening Core Instruction
- Facilitating Complex Learning
- Learning Targets and Scales
- Monitor and Measure
- Instructional Decision Making
- Conditions for Learning
- Vocabulary for Learning
Prerequisite:
None
Capacity:
On-Site: 50 participants per session
Virtual Training
Standards – Based Planning for Instructional Success
Audience:
Teachers
Size:
20 maximum per cohort
3 hours
Description:
There is never enough time for teachers to plan; making sure the time spent is impactful for learning is vital. Join our virtual (live or asynchronous) session, led by our expert Marzano faculty, to discover a process that deepens teachers’ understanding and practice of planning for standards-based instruction with clear learning targets, intentionally scaffolds lessons for rigor, aligns resources and tasks, and uses appropriate student data to plan for all students’ success.
*We would need to remove FTEM language to make it fit a broader audience
Conditions for Learning
Audience:
Teachers
Size:
20 maximum per cohort
3 hours
Description:
How do teachers create an environment for learning in their classrooms? Can online classrooms also be engaging? This virtual session, led by our live expert Marzano faculty, will give teachers new strategies and to enhance their current teaching, regardless of whether that takes place at school or home.
Monitoring for Learning
Audience:
Teachers
Size:
20 maximum
3 hours
Description:
Unit tests and exit slips are not enough. Monitoring student learning is crucial for teachers to collect evidence of standards-based learning. Join our live expert Marzano faculty in this virtual session to effectively use formative evidence to inform instructional decisions in the moment.
Virtual Coaching
Marzano Center – Virtual Coaching
Audience:
Teachers and Leaders
Size:
10 max. per session
Available in 1-hour increments
Description:
As educators navigate today’s ever-changing instructional landscape, the need for expert feedback and in-the-moment coaching is even more critical. Our live Marzano Center faculty can customize virtual coaching teachers and leaders to ensure good pedagogy and leadership continues whether the instruction is at school or home.
Virtual Self-Paced Learning
iAcademy Courses
Duration:
1-year license
Instructional Design – estimated 6.5 hours, audience: teachers
Description:
Dr. Robert Marzano’s expert videos provide teachers with the strategies needed to design instruction aligned to essential standards to create units, organize learning targets, plan for assessments, and plan intentional instructional strategies.
Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model for Observers – estimated 7 hours, audience: observers
Description:
Dr. Robert Marzano’s expert videos guide observers through the Focused Teacher Evaluation Model, giving participants the ability to identify and understand the domains, elements, and scales. This course is a great refresher for the FTEM 3-day training or can be used to provide training to new administrators.
Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model for Teachers – estimated 6 hours, audience: teachers
Description:
Dr. Robert Marzano’s expert videos guide teachers through the Focused Teacher Evaluation Model, giving participants the ability to identify and understand the domains, elements, and scales.
- District Leaders & Observers
- Additional PD for Observers
- Core PD for Teachers
- Non-Evaluative PD for Teachers
- Virtual PD
PD for Districts and Observers
Title: Overview and Inter-Rater Agreement* [CORE PD]
Audience:
Observers
Description:
Day 1: Introduction This session focuses on an overview of the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model, which includes a comprehensive and research-based description of teacher effectiveness that measures the impact of teachers using observation protocols, classroom artifacts, student work, and professional growth plans. The session teaches district leaders, principals, and all staff who observe or support teachers to focus on the 23 core competencies to measure effectiveness and guide a teacher from standards-based planning through selection and implementation of research-based instructional strategies, to awareness of conditions for learning in the classroom and professional responsibilities.
Day 2: Inter-Rater Agreement This session focuses on five critical conditions for building teacher expertise and learning the process for using protocols to observe classroom instruction. As part of that practice, participants will utilize the protocol to observe classroom videos and determine which strategies are being used.
Day 3: Scoring and Deepening Calibration* This session focuses on utilizing the five-step process to accurately score teachers, including evaluating standards-based lesson plans, observing classroom instruction, and evaluating student evidence, as well as providing feedback using the scale.
* Optional: A scoring assessment can be added at the end of the session.
Prerequisite:
None
Capacity:
On-Site: 50 participants per session
Live Virtual: 35 participants per session
Title: Focused Non-Classroom Instructional Support Personnel Evaluation Model
Audience:
Observers
Description:
Training is designed for personnel who evaluate certified/licensed teachers whose primary role is to support students and classroom teachers. As a result, districts can determine which personnel should be evaluated with the model and how to evaluate them.
Prerequisite:
None
Additional PD for Observers
Title: Side-By-Side Coaching for Observers
Audience:
Observers
Description:
During these on-site coaching sessions, an Instructional Empowerment (IE) expert consultant facilitates a team of one to five administrators in the classroom observation and feedback process. The consultant and administrative team participate in a briefing to establish goals for the coaching session, followed by classroom visits. Observers then share their observation data and learn ways to provide specific feedback to teachers and brainstorm next steps in improving their practice as instructional leaders.
Prerequisite:
None
Core PD for Teachers
Title: Making the Transition
Audience:
Teachers
Description:
This session highlights the similarities and differences with the 2014 model and focuses on a general overview of the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model. This includes descriptions of teacher effectiveness that measures the impact of teachers using observation protocols, classroom artifacts, portfolios, student work, and professional growth plans.
Prerequisite:
2014 Domain 1 Framework session
Capacity:
On-Site: 50 participants per session
Live Virtual: 35 participants per session
Title: Introduction and Overview
Audience:
Teachers
Description:
This session focuses on an overview of the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model, which includes a comprehensive, robust, and research-based description of teacher effectiveness that measures the impact of teachers using observation protocols, classroom artifacts, student work, and professional growth plans. The training introduces the 23 core competencies to measure effectiveness and guide a teacher from standards-based planning through selection and implementation of research-based instructional strategies.
Prerequisite:
None
Capacity:
On-Site: 50 participants per session
Live Virtual: 35 participants per session
Non-Evaluative PD for Teachers
Title: Essentials for Achieving Rigor
Audience:
Teachers
Description:
Successful standards-based instruction starts with teaching students foundational knowledge and skills that can be built upon throughout the instructional cycle. This type of instruction requires extended processing and application of knowledge and asks students to go beyond what is taught by asking questions and experimenting with their new knowledge.
Teachers can strengthen the instructional strategies they currently utilize and uncover other strategies and criteria required to reach rigorous standards. During these hands-on sessions, teachers will create a toolbox filled with the instructional strategies, tools, and resources that are the focus of each session.
Sessions include:
- Monitoring for Learning or Tracking for Real-Time Learning,
- Core Instruction
- Teach to Reach for Core Instruction
- Deepening Core Instruction
- Teach to Reach for Deepening Core Instruction
- Facilitating Complex Learning
- Learning Targets and Scales
- Monitor and Measure
- Instructional Decision Making
- Conditions for Learning
- Vocabulary for Learning
Prerequisite:
None
Capacity:
On-Site: 50 participants per session
Live Virtual: 35 participants per session
Virtual Training
Standards – Based Planning for Instructional Success
Audience:
Teachers
Size:
20 maximum per cohort
3 hours
Description:
There is never enough time for teachers to plan; making sure the time spent is impactful for learning is vital. Join our virtual (live or asynchronous) session, led by our expert Marzano faculty, to discover a process that deepens teachers’ understanding and practice of planning for standards-based instruction with clear learning targets, intentionally scaffolds lessons for rigor, aligns resources and tasks, and uses appropriate student data to plan for all students’ success.
*We would need to remove FTEM language to make it fit a broader audience
Conditions for Learning
Audience:
Teachers
Size:
20 maximum per cohort
3 hours
Description:
How do teachers create an environment for learning in their classrooms? Can online classrooms also be engaging? This virtual session, led by our live expert Marzano faculty, will give teachers new strategies and to enhance their current teaching, regardless of whether that takes place at school or home.
Monitoring for Learning
Audience:
Teachers
Size:
20 maximum
3 hours
Description:
Unit tests and exit slips are not enough. Monitoring student learning is crucial for teachers to collect evidence of standards-based learning. Join our live expert Marzano faculty in this virtual session to effectively use formative evidence to inform instructional decisions in the moment.
Virtual Coaching
Marzano Center – Virtual Coaching
Audience:
Teachers and Leaders
Size:
10 max. per session
Available in 1-hour increments
Description:
As educators navigate today’s ever-changing instructional landscape, the need for expert feedback and in-the-moment coaching is even more critical. Our live Marzano Center faculty can customize virtual coaching teachers and leaders to ensure good pedagogy and leadership continues whether the instruction is at school or home.
Virtual Self-Paced Learning
iAcademy Courses
Duration:
1-year license
Instructional Design – estimated 6.5 hours, audience: teachers
Description:
Dr. Robert Marzano’s expert videos provide teachers with the strategies needed to design instruction aligned to essential standards to create units, organize learning targets, plan for assessments, and plan intentional instructional strategies.
Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model for Observers – estimated 7 hours, audience: observers
Description:
Dr. Robert Marzano’s expert videos guide observers through the Focused Teacher Evaluation Model, giving participants the ability to identify and understand the domains, elements, and scales. This course is a great refresher for the FTEM 3-day training or can be used to provide training to new administrators.
Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model for Teachers – estimated 6 hours, audience: teachers
Description:
Dr. Robert Marzano’s expert videos guide teachers through the Focused Teacher Evaluation Model, giving participants the ability to identify and understand the domains, elements, and scales.