Technique 47: Threshold

Meet your students at the door, setting expectations before they enter the classroom.

  See page 391 in Teach Like A Champion32.0.

Technique 47: Strong Start

  Design and establish an efficient routine for students to enter the classroom and begin class.

  See page 391 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 49: Engineer Efficiency

Teach students the simplest and fastest procedure for executing classroom tasks, then practice so that executing the procedure becomes a routine.  

See page 406 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 50: Routine Building 

Turn procedures into routines by rehearsing and reinforcing until excellence becomes habitual.  

Routinizing a key procedure requires clear expectations, consistency, and, most important, patience. 

 Even so, its almost always worth it.  See page 407 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 51: Do It Again

Give students more practice when they're not up to speed, not just doing something again, but doing it better, striving to do their best.  

See page 413 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 52: What to Do

Use specific, concrete, sequential, and observable directions to tell students what to do, as opposed to what not to do.

  See page 425 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 54: Make Expectations Visible

Ensure that students follow through on a request in an immediate and visible way by setting a standard that's more demanding. 

 Be judicious in what you ask for, specifically because it will uphold the standard of compliance.  

See page 438 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 55: Least Invasive Intervention

Maximize teaching time and minimize "Drama" by using the subtlest and least invasive tactic possible to correct off-task students. 

 See page 439 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0

Technique 56: Firm Calm Finesse

Take steps to get compliance without conflict by establishing an environment of purpose and respect and by maintaining your own poise. 

 See page 446 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 57: Art of the Consequence

Ensure that consequences, when needed, are more effective by making them quick, incremental, consistent, and depersonalized. 

 It also help to make a bounce-back statement, showing students that they can quickly get back in the game. 

 See page 448 1 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 58: Strong Voice

Affirm your authority through intentional verbal and nonverbal habits, especially at moments when you need control.  

See page 455  in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 59: Positive Framing

Guide students to do better work while motivating and inspiring them by using a positive tone to deliver constructive feedback.  

See page 477 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 60: Precise Praise

Make your positive reinforcement strategic.  

Differentiate between acknowledgment and praise.

 See page 485 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 61: Warm/Strict

Be both warm and strict at the same time to send a message of high expectations, caring, and respect. 

 See page 490 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 63: Joy Factor

Celebrate the work of learning as you go.

See page 497 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.