Megan Wilson, 8th Grade U.S. History teacher at Jane Long, as seen on the video, demonstrates the strategy “Making Vocabulary Connections.” This was a strategy shared this summer at C2L conference by Social Studies instructional coach, Lisa Mouton, from Long/SFA.
Based on Robert Marzano’s work, identifying similarities and differences allows students to understand complex problems by analyzing them in a simple way. Marzano’s work says that using similarities and differences can give your students up to a 45% percentile gain.