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NumberOfPages : 352
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Author : Doug Lemov
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EAN : 9780470550472
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Language : English (Unknown) , English (Original Language) , English (Published)
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Author : Doug Lemov
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Teach Like a Champion 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.
Please note that the kindle edition does not come with a DVD.
Amazon.com Review
Teach Like a Champion 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.
1. Simplicity is underrated. A simple idea well-implemented is an incredibly powerful thing. 2. You know your classroom best. Always keep in mind that what’s good is what works in your classroom. 3. Excellent teaching is hard work. 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. 4. Every teacher must be a reading teacher. Reading is the skill our students need. 5. Teaching is the most important job in the world. And it’s also the most difficult. Amazon Exclusive: Q&A with Author Doug Lemov “Great teachers are born, not made…” You obviously disagree with this statement—please tell us why.
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 can 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. What’s the best way for a teacher to start the year with a new class?
It’s important to build systems and routines, as I describe in chapter six, “Setting and Maintaining High Behavioral Expectations” in Teach Like a Champion. 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. 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 you make it look. The first step is to believe that your classroom mirrors your decisions. You can control 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. If you could just change one thing in our nation’s schools, what would you change?
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. This 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.
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. 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. Successful teachers are happy teachers!
Teach Like a Champion 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.
Among the techniques:
- Technique #1: No Opt Out. How to move students from the blank stare or stubborn shrug to giving the right answer every time.
- Technique #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.
- Technique #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.
Please note that the kindle edition does not come with a DVD.
Amazon.com Review
Teach Like a Champion 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.
Among the techniques:
- Technique #1: No Opt Out. How to move students from the blank stare or stubborn shrug to giving the right answer every time.
- Technique #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.
- Technique #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.
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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 can 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. What’s the best way for a teacher to start the year with a new class?
It’s important to build systems and routines, as I describe in chapter six, “Setting and Maintaining High Behavioral Expectations” in Teach Like a Champion. 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. 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 you make it look. The first step is to believe that your classroom mirrors your decisions. You can control 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. If you could just change one thing in our nation’s schools, what would you change?
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. This 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.
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. 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. Successful teachers are happy teachers!
Customer Reviews
(69 customer reviews)
The latest in teaching tools, 2010-09-06
Teach like a Champion is based on the most current data. Doug Lemov is a widely respected researcher and educator who has observed many teachers. He has researched what it is that makes a teacher successful and he puts it into a "how to" format, so that anyone can imitate the techniques, yet still retain their own style. In fact he encourages personal "style." He also includes a DVD which shows a nice variety of teachers doing these techniques. For those of us who are very visual, this is wonderful!!
It is what teachers have been waiting for! You say you have "high expectations" and you don't see results? Doug Lemov tells you what to do that translates your expectations to students so they "get it!" He now runs a conglmerate of schools based on these techniques with students who are highly challenged, and he is extremely successful! A must read for all teachers planning to close the achievement gap!
Realistic and Practical, 2010-09-06
I am a high school teacher, and at my school we are currently reviewing the typical education book for our teacher training. This other book is so dry, theoretical, and boring that I can hardly force myself to read it.
That is why I have recommended "Teach Like a Champion" for teacher development at my school. The book is filled with practical, solid tips for better teaching. The book is actually about techniques, not about the bs that typically fills education books, like learning modalities, cognitive coaching, multiple intelligences, constructivism, etc.
Each technique is given a memorable title, such as "cold call," "stretch it," etc. I found many useful tips in the book, and I've just given it one quick reading. I've asked the mentor teacher assigned to me if we could study the book and implement its techniques throughout the year.
If you're looking for real-world, hands-on, practical suggestions for how to be a better teacher, then this is your book.
Incredible!, 2010-08-27
I chose to read this as part of a professional development course and I really gained much more from it than I had ever imagined. The text was invigorating and the ideas were really teacher friendly, easily adaptable and thought provoking. I plan on reading this a few more times so that I can continue to develop new teaching strategies.
Teach Like a Champion provides good insights for all teachers, 2010-08-25
The book was nicely laid out and challenges the thoughtful reader who is interested in assessing their teaching style. Not all of the advice is special or insightful, but the entire focus of the book provides a good framework for some thoughtful self-reflection.
The Section on Teaching Reading is Fantastic, 2010-08-19
I enjoyed this book and am excited to implement many of the 49 techniques in my classroom (some of them won't, I don't think, work for my inner city 11th graders, a point made in other reviews). Just based on the 49 techniques, I might have given the book four stars, since I think a bit of discussion of age-levels might have been useful (the DVD is almost all, or all, middle and elementary school).
But almost half the book presents material beyond the 49 techniques, including very useful discussions of lesson pacing and teaching reading. The latter section was like an entirely other book, and was among the most interesting discussions I've read on the topic (and since I'm a high school English teacher just finishing up the Johns Hopkins teaching Masters, I've read a fair bit on it).
Two of the insights that I need to discuss with my school and investigate further, and which have HUGE potential ramifications:
1) He advocates homogeneous grouping (by ability) for maximum student achievement (I wish he'd said more about this and provided references). If he's right, he could make a huge positive impact by pushing this harder; my school does the opposite, as do many schools, and I've thought it's a big problem, but there's not much willingness to challenge it; the science is, I thought, against my instincts...
2) He spends quite a bit of time dissing the standard method of teaching reading that uses comprehension strategies. He is especially disdainful of "visualization," but isn't kind to any of them other than summarizing. He's convincing, but again I'd have appreciated citations. My school is using Strategies That Work, and while his arguments make serious intuitive sense, I would have enjoyed a bit more reference to studies and/or elaboration on his points.
Overall, this book will improve my teaching significantly, and will thus have a positive impact on the lives of the few hundred kids I'll teach this year. It must feel good to be Doug Lemov.
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(69 customer reviews) The latest in teaching tools, 2010-09-06 Teach like a Champion is based on the most current data. Doug Lemov is a widely respected researcher and educator who has observed many teachers. He has researched what it is that makes a teacher successful and he puts it into a "how to" format, so that anyone can imitate the techniques, yet still retain their own style. In fact he encourages personal "style." He also includes a DVD which shows a nice variety of teachers doing these techniques. For those of us who are very visual, this is wonderful!!
It is what teachers have been waiting for! You say you have "high expectations" and you don't see results? Doug Lemov tells you what to do that translates your expectations to students so they "get it!" He now runs a conglmerate of schools based on these techniques with students who are highly challenged, and he is extremely successful! A must read for all teachers planning to close the achievement gap!
Realistic and Practical, 2010-09-06 I am a high school teacher, and at my school we are currently reviewing the typical education book for our teacher training. This other book is so dry, theoretical, and boring that I can hardly force myself to read it.
That is why I have recommended "Teach Like a Champion" for teacher development at my school. The book is filled with practical, solid tips for better teaching. The book is actually about techniques, not about the bs that typically fills education books, like learning modalities, cognitive coaching, multiple intelligences, constructivism, etc.
Each technique is given a memorable title, such as "cold call," "stretch it," etc. I found many useful tips in the book, and I've just given it one quick reading. I've asked the mentor teacher assigned to me if we could study the book and implement its techniques throughout the year.
If you're looking for real-world, hands-on, practical suggestions for how to be a better teacher, then this is your book.
Incredible!, 2010-08-27 I chose to read this as part of a professional development course and I really gained much more from it than I had ever imagined. The text was invigorating and the ideas were really teacher friendly, easily adaptable and thought provoking. I plan on reading this a few more times so that I can continue to develop new teaching strategies.
Teach Like a Champion provides good insights for all teachers, 2010-08-25 The book was nicely laid out and challenges the thoughtful reader who is interested in assessing their teaching style. Not all of the advice is special or insightful, but the entire focus of the book provides a good framework for some thoughtful self-reflection.
The Section on Teaching Reading is Fantastic, 2010-08-19 I enjoyed this book and am excited to implement many of the 49 techniques in my classroom (some of them won't, I don't think, work for my inner city 11th graders, a point made in other reviews). Just based on the 49 techniques, I might have given the book four stars, since I think a bit of discussion of age-levels might have been useful (the DVD is almost all, or all, middle and elementary school).
But almost half the book presents material beyond the 49 techniques, including very useful discussions of lesson pacing and teaching reading. The latter section was like an entirely other book, and was among the most interesting discussions I've read on the topic (and since I'm a high school English teacher just finishing up the Johns Hopkins teaching Masters, I've read a fair bit on it).
Two of the insights that I need to discuss with my school and investigate further, and which have HUGE potential ramifications:
1) He advocates homogeneous grouping (by ability) for maximum student achievement (I wish he'd said more about this and provided references). If he's right, he could make a huge positive impact by pushing this harder; my school does the opposite, as do many schools, and I've thought it's a big problem, but there's not much willingness to challenge it; the science is, I thought, against my instincts...
2) He spends quite a bit of time dissing the standard method of teaching reading that uses comprehension strategies. He is especially disdainful of "visualization," but isn't kind to any of them other than summarizing. He's convincing, but again I'd have appreciated citations. My school is using Strategies That Work, and while his arguments make serious intuitive sense, I would have enjoyed a bit more reference to studies and/or elaboration on his points.
Overall, this book will improve my teaching significantly, and will thus have a positive impact on the lives of the few hundred kids I'll teach this year. It must feel good to be Doug Lemov.
View All Customer