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The addition of the phrase 2.0 acknowledges that the book is so full of new ideas, within an updated structure, that it cannot be simply called a new edition. Over the past four years, Doug Lemov has continued to learn from watching great teachers in action. More specifically, watching teachers use and adapt the 49 techniques from the original Teach Like a Champion. He discovered that the best teachers find ways to take anything you give them and make it more rigorous. Lemov calls this process the Virtuous Cycle: give teachers a good thing, and they make it better, smarter, faster.
What do you do when a student gives up and simply won’t try? How do you know what the student who hides silently in the corner is learning? How can you maximize the amount of work students are doing? And what do you do when you ask a student to sit down, and he smirks and tells you to sit down? As these examples suggest, the predictability of endemic problems does not imply that they are simple to solve. And it shouldn’t take a dozen years of brutal trial and error, suffering, and fatigue for a teacher to figure these problems out. Further observation has helped Lemov to see the many endemic problems for which teachers have derived brilliant solutions. Incorporating all of these additional observations into a book that is as much sequel as revision, Teach Like a Champion 2.0 features 62 techniques and 75 new video clips. This guide outlines the new content structure of 2.0, including changes from the previous book; a snapshot of revised, removed, and new techniques; a snapshot of new videos included; and descriptions of useful resources that have been added to 2.0, as well as information on our online resources.
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