Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

02.06.15 Annals of Coaching: On Watching Bayern

If you’re a soccer geek, or just a practice geek, you should check out the Bayern Munich full training sessions that are available on YouTube.  With only light narration they run the camera straight through their training sessions in real time, which is a great thing for coaches to get to watch. I had an hour…


01.16.15 On Coaching: Teaching Players to Watch Differently

My son is a soccer junkie- a football junkie I should say because if you used that word with him he would think first of it in the rest of the world’s usage.  If you asked him about football last week, he’d tell you about Palace beating Spurs more than Colts beating Broncos   We watch…


01.09.15 My New Favorite Word

My new favorite word is ‘pause’- especially when it’s used in place of the word ‘stop.’  We’ve been discussing this a lot lately at our workshops- in a lot of different settings. Consider, for example, a ‘rally-killer,’ a student who hogs the stage at exactly the wrong time: you ask for a piece of evidence that…