Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College

iTeach Like a Champion/i offers effective teaching techniques to help teachers, especially those in their first few years, become champions in the classroom. These powerful techniques are concrete, specific, and are easy to put into action the very next day. Training activities at the end of each chapter help the reader further their understanding through reflection and application of the ideas to their own practice. p Among the techniques: UL LITechnique #1: No Opt Out. How to move students from the blank stare or stubborn shrug to giving the right answer every time. LITechnique #35: Do It Again. When students fail to successfully complete a basic task, from entering the classroom quietly to passing papers around, doing it again, doing it right, and doing it perfectly, results in the best consequences. LITechnique #38: No Warnings. If you're angry with your students, it usually means you should be angry with yourself. This technique shows how to effectively address misbehaviors in your classroom. /ul The book includes a DVD of 25 video clips of teachers demonstrating the techniques in the classroom. P/

iTeach Like a Champion/i offers effective teaching techniques to help teachers, especially those in their first few years, become champions in the classroom. These powerful techniques are concrete, specific, and are easy to put into action the very next day. Training activities at the end of each chapter help the reader further their understanding through reflection and application of the ideas to their own practice. p Among the techniques: UL LI bTechnique #1: No Opt Out./b How to move students from the blank stare or stubborn shrug to giving the right answer every time. LI bTechnique #35: Do It Again./b When students fail to successfully complete a basic task?from entering the classroom quietly to passing papers around?doing it again, doing it right, and doing it perfectly, results in the best consequences. LI bTechnique #38: No Warnings./b If you're angry with your students, it usually means you should be angry with yourself. This technique shows how to effectively address misbehaviors in your classroom. /ul The book includes a DVD of 25 video clips of teachers demonstrating the techniques in the classroom. P/ P SPAN class=h3colorBTop Five Things Every Teacher Needs to Know (or Do) to Be Successful/B/SPANbr/ Amazon-exclusive content from author Doug Lemov P TABLE cellPadding=4 width="201" align="right" TBODY TR align=left width="201" TD IMG src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/wiley-ems/Doug-Lemov.jpg" border=0 /TD /TR /TBODY /TABLE b1. Simplicity is underrated./b A simple idea well-implemented is an incredibly powerful thing. p/ b2. You know your classroom best./b Always keep in mind that what’s good is what works in iyour/i classroom. p/ b3. Excellent teaching is hard work./b Excellent teachers continually strive to learn and to master their craft. No matter how good a teacher is it’s always possible to be better. p/ b4. Every teacher must be a reading teacher./b Reading is ithe/i skill our students need. p/ b5. Teaching is the most important job in the world./b And it’s also the most difficult. p/ SPAN class=h3colorBAmazon Exclusive: QA with Author Doug Lemov/B/SPAN p/ b“Great teachers are born, not made…” You obviously disagree with this statement—please tell us why. /bbr/ A few teachers may be born with an intuitive gift for teaching but I when I watch a great teacher I see mostly hard work and attention to detail. So believe that great teachers ican/i be made. Every teacher can improve by using proven, concrete techniques in the classroom. This question brings to mind two amazing teachers I know—Julie Jackson and Colleen Driggs. Julie and Colleen are always doing things like reviewing their lesson plans on the way to work and talking with peers about how to improve their craft. It’s exciting to me that what we may attribute to natural talent is actually hard work. You can choose to work hard and improve and become exactly the teacher you want to be. p/ bWhat’s the best way for a teacher to start the year with a new class?/bbr It’s important to build systems and routines, as I describe in chapter six, “Setting and Maintaining High Behavioral Expectations” in iTeach Like a Champion/i. The first day of school should be teaching students the right way to do things and practicing this over and over. Learning and practicing these systems and routines allows a teacher and her students to rely on this foundation for the rest of the year. p/ I once witnessed Dave Levin (who is a founder of KIPP schools and a fantastic teacher) begin a teacher training workshop in an interesting way. Dave started by handing a mirror to every teacher in the room. He said, “Your classroom is a mirror. It looks however iyou/i make it look. The first step is to believe that your classroom mirrors your decisions. You ican control/i it.” That’s the first step. To accept that as a teacher you decide who you want to be and how you want to create your classroom culture. You own it. Some people do it so you can do it. And that’s a good thing. p/ bIf you could just change one thing in our nation’s schools, what would you change?/bbr/ It’s important that we do everything possible to support teachers so that they love their work and can be successful in the classroom. In my opinion, teachers should get paid the same as professional athletes or film stars. p/ bThis book is largely based on your experience with the group of charter schools you help lead on the east coast, called Uncommon Schools. Please tell us more about Uncommon Schools. /bbr/ Uncommon Schools is a group of schools that serve low-income populations in urban centers in New York and New Jersey. Across our 16 schools 98% of our students scored proficient in math and just below 90% in English. This means that our schools usually outperform more privileged suburban districts. p/ We’ve been using the 49 techniques in my book for 5 years, with our teachers constantly refining and adding to them. Our experience has proven not only that that these techniques work—and they can work in every school and in every classroom—but that great teachers make them better and more sophisticated over time. And best of all the teachers who practice using them find themselves in control of a happy, rigorous classroom that reflects the motivations that brought them to teaching in the first place. 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/strong/div/td td align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#e6e7e9"div class="imageCaption" style="height: 30px;" Doug Lemov /div/td td align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#e6e7e9"div class="imageCaption" style="height: 30px;" Doug Lemov /div/td /tr tr valign="top" height="36" td width="36" align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" /td td align="left" valign="left" nowrap="nowrap" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"div class="imageCaption"strongPrint Book/strong/div/td td align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"div class="imageCaption" style="height: 30px;" 0470550473 /div/td td align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"div class="imageCaption" style="height: 30px;" 1118116828 /div/td /tr tr valign="top" height="36" td width="36" align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#e6e7e9" /td td align="left" valign="left" nowrap="nowrap" bgcolor="#e6e7e9"div class="imageCaption"strongKindle Book/strong/div/td td align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#e6e7e9"div class="imageCaption" style="height: 30px;" B003BGUON8 /div/td td align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#e6e7e9"div class="imageCaption" style="height: 30px;" B006PW2UVO /div/td /tr tr valign="top" height="36" td width="36" align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" /td td align="left" valign="left" nowrap="nowrap" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"div class="imageCaption"strongBrief Description/strong/div/td td align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"div class="imageCaption" What the best teachers do: powerful classroom mgmt. and motivation techniques-- concrete, specific, and easy to put into action. /div/td td align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"div class="imageCaption" Implementing, customizing, and mastering these techniques with self-assessment, partnering, troubleshooting, and new video clips, /div/td /tr tr valign="top" height="36" td width="36" align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" /td /table/td /tr /table p/p/td /tr /table /div