Previous predictions of the future of ed-tech looked like this. Teachers mostly just went about their business. I came across this article in EdWeek by Benjamin Herold on Thursday. It bemoans the woeful use of educational technology by teachers and starts off with this observation: A mountain of evidence indicates that teachers have been painfully…
Here’s a rundown of that video of Amarillo Texas Caprock High’s Beth Brannon that I promised in my recent post about unexpectedness. Beth uses, by my count, 11 techniques from Teach Like a Champion 2.0 in the clip (!), though you might never know it unless you watched carefully. Her productive class seems like a happy…
Recently, I watched footage of some of Amarillo (TX) ISD’s top teachers, including Beth Brannon, an English teacher at Caprock High. Beth’s teaching was fascinating and wonderful—full of deftly applied examples of the techniques my team and I study and discuss in Teach Like a Champion workshops, but also totally unique…and sometimes quite unexpected. In my…
Rue Ratray, of UpAcademy Oliver, a district turnaround school in Lawrence, MA is one of the best–and most reflective–teachers I know. He’s been writing a series of guest posts (you can read his others here and here) about teaching. He shared his latest with me this week–it’s a reflection on a phrase neither of us is…
We’ve just finished our chapter on vocabulary in Reading Reconsidered. In it, we describe ways to teach new words directly (Explicit Vocabulary Instruction) and ways to increase how much word knowledge students absorb from reading words in texts (Implicit Vocabulary Instruction). The following is from our discussion of Explicit Vocabulary Instruction and talks about the key…