A colleague in Blackpool, England, Stephen Tierney, recently wrote to pass along some questions that had come up in conversations about TLaC with his teachers. They were all good questions and he’s shared most of them (and my answers) on his own blog here:. But for one question I thought it would help if i shared…
Break it Down is one of the hardest Teach Like a Champion techniques to master. You use it when students are stuck, and you must follow-up with a question to help them get to the answer. The idea is to give them the smallest possible hint to get them from an incorrect or incomplete response to…
I love Carol Dweck’s work and think Mindset should be required reading for educators, particularly as a guide to giving positive reinforcement to students. To summarize briefly, she describes how important a growth rather than fixed mindset is to children in determining how much they learn. If they love difficulty and challenge, if they say not,…
I was grateful to get to spend some time recently talking about Reading Reconsidered with Liana Heitin of EdWeek, but I found myself feeling like I didn’t capture the book in talking about it–bits and pieces maybe but no sense of the whole. One reason–other than my own failure to describe–is that it’s a big sprawling…
[This post is updated w additional comments added at the end on 1.22]. This week NPR ran a piece on “no-nonsense classrooms” and described a program that advised teachers not to use ‘please’ and ‘thank you.’ Some people might think I would agree with this advice. A few have even suggested that this guidance ultimately derives…