CSTP 3 & 4: Instruction
Chapters 2, 4, 5 & 6
Great classrooms are built around academic rigor that engages students in learning.
CHAPTER 2: Lesson Preparation
Find the Chapter Introduction on page 37 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0
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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.
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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.
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Other Techniques that may be helpful around Lesson Preparation from the previous version of Teach like a Champion (2.0 )
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.
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Display your lesson objective where everyone can see it and identify your purpose
See pages 140-143 in Teach Like A Champion 2.0.
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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.
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CHAPTER 4: Academic Ethos
Find the Chapter Introduction on page 139 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0
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.
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.
Reward "right" answers with harder questions.
See page 161 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.
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.
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.
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CHAPTER 5: Lesson Structure
Find the Chapter Introduction on page 187 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0
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.
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Break down complex tasks into steps that form a path for student mastery.
See page 194 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.
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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.
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(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.
Move strategically around the room during all parts of the lesson.
See page 222 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.
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.
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CHAPTER 6: Pacing
Find the Chapter Introduction on page 237 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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Respect students' time by spending every minute productively.
See page 260 in Teach Like A Champion 3.0.
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