Technique 2: Plan for Error

Increase the likelihood that you'll recognize and respond to errors by planning for common mistakes in advance.

See page 49 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 4: Double Plan

As you plan your lesson, plan what students will be doing at each point in class. 

See page 58 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Begin With the End

Progress from unit planning to lesson planning.  

Define the objective, decide how you'll assess it, and then choose appropriate lesson activities.

  See pages 132-137 in Teach Like A Champion 2.0.

 Post It

Display your lesson objective where everyone can see it and identify your purpose

See pages 140-143 in Teach Like A Champion 2.0.

4 Ms

Use four criteria to write an effective lesson plan, making it: manageable, measurable, made first, and most important.

See pages 137-140 in Teach Like A Champion 2.0.

Technique 15: No Opt Out

Turn "I don't know" into success by ensuring that students who won't try or can't answer practice getting it right.

See page 139 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 16: Right is Right

When you respond to answers in class, hold out for answers that are "all-the-way right" or all the way to your standards of rigor.

See page 153 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 18: Format Matters

Help your students practice responding in a format that communicates the worthiness of their ideas.

See page 173 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 19: Without Apology

Embrace, rather than apologize for, rigorous content, academic challenge, and the hard work necessary to scholarship.

See page 181 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Do Now

Use a short warm-up activity that students can complete without any instruction from you to start class every day.

This lets the learning start even before you begin teaching.

See page 187 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 21: Take the Steps

Break down complex tasks into steps that form a path for student mastery.

See page 194 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 22: Board = Paper

Model and shape how students should take notes in order to capture information you present.

See page 202 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 24 : FASE Reading 

(Previously called Control the Game)

Ask students to read aloud frequently, but manage the process to ensure expressiveness, accountability and engagement.

See page 205 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 25: Circulate

Move strategically around the room during all parts of the lesson.

See page 222 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 26: Exit Ticket

End each class with an explicit assessment of your objective that you can use to evaluate your (and your students') success.

See page 228 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 27: Change the Pace

             Establish a productive pace in your classroom.

Create "fast" or "slow" moments in a lesson by shifting activity types or formats.

See page 241 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 28: Brighten Lines

Ensure that changes in activities and other mileposts are perceived clearly by making beginnings and endings of activities visible and crisp.

See page 248 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 29: All Hands

 Leverage hand raising to positively impact pacing.

Manage and vary the ways that students raise their hands, as well as the methods you use to call on them.

See page 252 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 30: Work the Clock

Measure time, your greatest resource as a teacher, intentionally, strategically, and often visibly to shape both you, and your students' experience in the classroom.

See page 256 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.

Technique 31: Every Minute Matters

           Respect students' time by spending every minute productively.

See page 260 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.