Wanted to take a moment to share a really lovely and elegant video from Narlene Pacheco’s kindergarten classroom at Partnership NYC’s Immaculate Conception School in the Bronx. Narlene’s teaching demonstrates a lot of elements of the Check for Understanding (CFU) technique, most of all Tracking Not Watching– the idea that careful observation for…
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…
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…
Heather Kirkpatrick is the Chief People Officer at Aspire Public Schools. She’s one of the most insightful people I know and combines her insight with a ton of decency, humanity and humility. So you pretty much want to take her advice when you get it. Anyway, she read my recent post on “Rigor Collapse” and emailed this in…