Marzano Design Questions DQ's 2-5

Students volunteer answers to inferential questions.

• Elaborating on new information
• Examining similarities and differences
• Providing opportunities for students to talk about themselves
• Identifying critical information

When asked, students describe the importance of generating and testing hypotheses about content.

• Elaborating on new information
• Revising knowledge
• Managing response rates
• Organizing students for cognitively complex tasks

Students quickly adapt to transitions and re-engage when a new activity begins.

• Maintaining a lively pace
• Organizing students to practice and deepen knowledge
• Practicing skills, strategies, and processes
• Using physical movement

Students perform the skill, strategy, or process with increased confidence.

• Using academic games
• Processing of new information
• Practicing skills, strategies, and processes
• Previewing new content

While students are reading information or stories orally as a class, the teacher stops at strategic points.

• Maintaining a lively pace
• Reviewing content
• Proving resources and guidance
• Chunking content into "digestible bites"

Teacher has students examine multiple perspectives and opinions about content.

• Elaborating on new information
• Examining errors in reasoning
• Using friendly controversy
• Demonstrating intensity and enthusiasm

Teacher extends an activity that was begun in class to provide students with more time.

• Using academic games
• Organizing students to interact with new knowledge
• Using homework
• Engaging students in cognitively complex tasks involving hypothesis genteration and testing

When asked, students can describe the level of importance of the information addressed in class.

• Demonstrating intensity and enthusiasm
• Reviewing content
• Revising knowledge
•  Identifying critical information

- Comparison activities
- Classifying activities
- Analogy activities
- Metaphor activities

• Examining similarities and differences
• Practicing skills, strategies, and processes
• Using academic games
• Elaborating on new information

Teacher engages students with an explicit decision-making, problem-solving, experimental-inquiry, or investigation task that requires them to generate and test hypothesis.

• Organizing students to practice and deepen knowledge
• Engaging students in cognitively complex tasks involving hypothesis generation and testing
• Presenting unusual or intriguing information
• Organizing students to interact with new knowledge