With Teach Like a Champion 2.0 lining the shelves of a book store near you, we’re back at the tiller at TLaC Towers, studying and learning from teachers. Recently we watched a lesson of Derek Pollak’s at North Star High School and were pretty inspired. We liked this clip in particular and Maggie Johnson volunteered to…
The quotation at the top of this blog post comes from The General, Bobby Knight, the legendary Indiana University Basketball coach (and folk legend). We discuss it today at our workshop on Check for Understanding with 100 or so educators from around the country. There’s a strong connection between planning and success in the domain of…
Teach Like a Champion 2.0 starts with a brand new section on Check For Understanding: Two full chapters and 10 techniques answering four key questions: How do you better gather data about student mastery through asking students questions? How do you better gather data about student mastery by observing students? How do you make it easier…
My colleague Dan Cotton, who’s guest posted here and here recently, visited Vicki Hernandez’s 7th Grade Science Class at Troy Prep Middle School a few days ago observing a lesson that made him wish he’d had his video camera. He tried to capture some of what Vicki did in this write-up: A few days ago, I had the…
Wrapping up Teach Like a Champion 2.0 this week. Shooting to have it your neighborhood bookstore before the end of 2014. Here’s a little snippet from Check for Understanding–which gets TWO chapters in the new version!!!–reflecting on why it’s so hard to take action when data starts to emerge, real-time, that maybe students aren’t mastering what…