Break It Down (Technique #35) is a valuable and important teacher move, but it’s also without a doubt one of the hardest techniques in Teach Like a Champion to execute. The idea is that when a student gives an incomplete or wrong answer, the teacher replies with a question that provides just enough hint, reminder, or…
I was prepping for a project we’re cooking up this morning and re-watched one of the oldest videos we still show in our workshops. It’s of Alexandra Bronson– at the time we shot it she was a science teacher at Williamsburg Collegiate in Brooklyn. Now she’s Principal there. In watching it i noticed something ‘typically new.’ …
Sarah Fischler is a science teacher at North Star Academy in Newark. She’s one of our seven TLaC Fellows this year. She recently shared with us a video of a great system she’s implemented: classroom TAs. The system allows her to keep kids productive and give them agency over their work but also to spend her…
This has been a pretty amazing spring up at TLaC towers because, among other things we’ve begun to pilot “TLaC Fellows” program. The idea is this: We want to create incentives for great teachers to be… wait for it…. even better teachers. That is, we want ways for them to be ambitious and remain in the…
Brittany Rumph is a lead Kindergarten teacher at Rochester Prep West Elementary School in Rochester, NY, and we love her work. There are about a thousand reasons why, but two of them are especially important to building positive classroom culture. We call them Warm/Strict (Technique #60 in Teach Like a Champion) and Firm, Calm, Finesse (Technique #54 in…