Welcome Back!Today’s Schedule

Coffee and Mixer

Introduction of 2011-2012 PLC Team

Teach Like a Champion

Break

Techniques

Lunch

Reflection

Techniques

Break

Techniques

Reflection and What’s Next?

The Flip-Out Challenge!

Wrap-Up

Teach Like A Champion: 49 Techniques that Put

Students on the Path to College

By Doug Lemov

Boerne-Samuel V. Champion High School

PLCAugust 15, 2011

What Does Teaching Like a Champion Look Like?• This is a multi-modal opportunity to display your

knowledge.

• Choose from the following techniques for your group presentation:

Sculpt-It Paint-It Sing-It

Dance-It Tech-It Collage-It

Write-It Act-It Draw-It

Share-Out

Break

Book Introduction

About the Author• Taught English and history at the university, high

school, middle school levels

• MBA from Harvard Business SchoolFounder/Principal of the Academy of the Pacific Rim Charter School in Boston

• Managing Director, Uncommon Schools (16 college prep charter high need schools in NY/NJ

• Oversees True North Network

• President of School Performance (Organization helping schools use data for decision making)

• Vice President for Accountability at the State University of New York Charter Schools Institute

Teaching Like A Champion

• Highly skilled individual with a discrete set of tools, building systems of classroom culture and instruction

• A new taxonomy of effective teaching practices

• Using micro-techniques that make all the difference in student learning

• Techniques vs. strategy: A thing you say or do in a particular way vs. a generalized approach

• Transforming students at risk of failure into achievers and believers

Building the Essential Techniques Setting High Academic Expectations

Planning that ensures academic achievement

Structuring/Delivering Lessons

Engaging Students in Your Classrooms

Creating a Strong Classroom Culture

Setting/Maintaining High Behavioral Expectations

Building Character and Trust

Improving Pacing : Creating a Positive Rhythm in the Classroom

Challenging Students to Think Critically

The Five Principles of Classroom Culture

1. Discipline

2. Management

3. Control

4. Influence

5. Engagement

The Synergy of the Five Principles

Teaching Techniques

• Tight Transitions

• Entry Routines

• Props

• Do Now

Share-out/Reflection

Lunch

Taking a Look Back

Reflecting on your teaching experiences from last school

year:

• What do you need to STOP doing?

• What do you need to CHANGE?

• What is working so well that you want to SHARE it with the world?

Share-Out

Michele, Michelle, and Jayne’s Section #1

Setting High Expectations

• Right is Right-Michele M.

• Format-Michele M.

• No Opt Out-Jayne

Engaging Your Students

• Cold Call-Michele H.

• Exit Tickets-Michele H.

• Everybody Writes-Jayne

• Work the Clock/Every Minute Matters

Share-Out/Reflection

Break

Michele, Michele, and Jayne’s Section #2

Share-Out/Reflection

Break

Final Thoughts and Wrap-Up

No Opt Out• High expectations for all

students

• “It’s not okay not to try.”

• Sequence of helping reluctant students answer questions and participate successfully

• A technique that normalizes the process with students who need it the most.

• Four different formats

Clip 1

Right is Right• The difference between

partially right and all the way right

• High standard for correctness: 100 percent

• Hold out for all the way correctness

• Answer the question

• Right answer, right time

• Use technical vocabulary

Clip 2

Stretch It • Rewarding right answers with more

questions

• Used to check for understanding

• Challenge students to apply their knowledge.

• Ask how or why

• Ask for another way to answer

• Ask for a better word

• Ask for evidence

• Ask students to integrate a related skill

• Students apply skills in new setting

Clip 4

Circulate• Move strategically

around the room

• Break the plane

• Full access required

• Own the room

• Engage students

• Move sytematically

• Position for power

• Clip 6

Cold Call• Predictable – anticipation keeps students engaged

• Systematic – universal not personal

• Positive – fosters positive engagement

• Scaffolded – simple to harder questions always

• Clips 7-9

Everybody Writes• Reflect in writing

before discussing

• “I write to know what I think.”

• Every student participates

• Thought refining process

• Students remember twice as much

Clip 12

I/We/You

I Techniques:

• The Hook

• Name the Steps

• Board=Paper

• Circulate

You Techniques:

• At Bats

• Exit Ticket

• Take a Stand

We Techniques:

• Break It Down

• Ratio

• Check for understanding

Responding to DATA

Must result in action to make a difference

• Reteach using different approach

• Identify and reteach problem solving steps

• Reteach, Identify, and explain difficult terms

• Reteach at a slower pace

• Reteach using a different order

• Reteach identifying students of concern

• Reteach using more repetitions.