Doug Lemov's field notes

 TLAC Online is Teach Like a Champion’s platform for teachers to learn and practice our techniques. This summer we nearly doubled the Engaging Academics content! We added five five new modules to help increase student engagement in your classroom.

• Ratio: Improve the level of student engagement and thinking in your classroom with this reflection activity.
• Turn and Talk: Increase student voice through strategic use of peer-to-peer conversations.
• Three Types of Writing: Improve student writing (and thinking!) by utilizing different types of prompts.
• Formative Writing: Implement Formative prompts to help students use writing as a thinking tool.
• Lesson Preparation: Set yourself and your students up for success by taking these steps before class even starts.

The modules are designed for self-study, though they can also be used as a coaching tool, and each takes between 15 and 20 minutes to complete.

If you’re interested in experiencing a module yourself, check out our Positive Cold Call module, which is always available to the public.

We’ve learned a ton about how to get the most out of the modules from fantastic partners who have used TLAC Online in a variety of different ways. Check out a few of their stories below:  

• Capital Prep Public Schools in New York City and Connecticut have been assigning the modules for teachers to complete independently after observations. This year they will also use the videos as a way of launching their coaching meetings so teachers have a clear model for their action steps.
• Shout out to Southern Cross Campus in Auckland New Zealand who have used the modules for the past year to bring TLAC not only to their campus, but to their country! Southern Cross led two school-wide trainings using our Plug and Plays and have been assigning a group of teachers modules to continue their learning.
• Thank you to our TLAC Fellows, Dr. Rene Claxton and Dr. Robert Arnold, who have been using the videos and technique notes from the modules to train medical educators at University of Pittsburgh and the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine. They plan to use them with faculty at Sinai School of Medicine this fall.
• Achieve Excellence New Mexico has used the modules for several years to support their new-to-career teachers. Every participating teacher is given an account and meets regularly with a mentor teacher who guides their process and provides opportunities for reflection.
• And one of our oldest clients, Waller Elementary in Bossier, Louisiana, has teachers complete the modules together in Professional Learning Communities who select the topics that interest them the most and then reflect and implement together.

If you have a great story for how you’ve used the modules either yourself, for your team, or across your campus, we’d love to hear from you!!  Email us at hsolomon@teachlikeachampion.org. 

With a subscription purchase, you get full access to all 46 of our modules, each of which includes multiple videos and opportunities to practice, as well as best practice tips for implementing the techniques.   If you’re interested in purchasing a license for the modules, please click here.