Teach Like A Champion

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An introduction by Doug Lemov into what he thinks are the effective strategies to Teaching. The principles of his book and a few strategies to help in the classroom.

The website: Teach Like A Champion has a huge number of blogs with teachers in action and then an explanation of why the methods being used are effective. Use the search function to look through and find support for your specific issues. Below are a sample of some our favourite blogs. The link will take you to the website. Please make sure you follow: @Doug_Lemov and @TeachLikeAChamp

Lesson Preparation: How Christine Torres Prepares To Teach - Teach Like a ChampionA few weeks ago I began work on the latest revision to Teach Like A Champion, what will become version 3.0 in about a year’s time. One of the biggest changes will be with Chapter 4, which is going to shift focus from Lesson Planning to Lesson Preparation, which are the things you do after your...

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[Updated] "It's Gonna Be So Hard to Choose!" Three Cold Calls from Brittney Moore's Class - Teach Like a ChampionGot a new Cold Call video to share with you. It’s of Brittney Moore, who teaches third grade at Troy Prep Elementary in Troy, NY. The video includes three different examples of Cold Call and my team and I loved each one. EA.ColdCAll.GR3.Moore.’So hard to choose.’Clip2958 from TLAC Blog on Vimeo. In the first, students are...

TLAC 2.0 Excerpt: "Managing the Pause" During Cold Call - Teach Like a ChampionThoughts on getting value out of Cold Call by slowing it down.

Samara Levy: Cold Call + No Opt Out + Retrieval Practice - Teach Like a ChampionStrengthening long-term memory with Retrieval Practice. Super busy at TLAC Towers this week so I barely have time to write, but we just cut this great clip of TLAC Fellow Samara Levy of Livingston Collegiate Academy High School in New Orleans that I kind of had to share. It shows Samara in the midst of her...

Strong Voice, Register Shifts and Warm/Strict: Ms. Cenac Greets Her Students - Teach Like a ChampionStrong Voice is a critical tool for teachers. They need to manage a room, ensure directions are followed, make sure students listen–those things come with the territory. If you can’t do them, you can’t do your job. That doesn’t mean Strong Voice can’t also be warm and caring even while it helps us set expectations. In...

Ms. Pacheco's Kindergarten and the Importance of "Tracking, Not Watching" - Teach Like a Champion Wanted to take a moment to share a really lovely and elegant video from Narlene Pacheco’s kindergarten classroom at Partnership NYC’s Immaculate Conception School in the Bronx. Narlene’s teaching demonstrates a lot of elements of the Check for Understanding (CFU) technique, most of all Tracking Not Watching– the idea that careful observation for...

Annals of Coaching: Planning for Error - Teach Like a ChampionOne of the most effective activities we do with teachers–both at Uncommon Schools and in our trainings–is planning for error (Plan for Error is Teach Like a Champion 2.0 technique #7). The idea is that if you spend a few minutes before your lessons anticipating 1) what your students are likely to get wrong or misunderstand...

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