A few days ago I came across the above outstanding illustration created by Luke Tayler, a geography teacher in Bahrain. It captures in graphic form the power of timing the name during Cold Call. The basic idea is that when students know you might Cold Call and you use a structure of question-pause-name for your question,…
As many readers know, the release of TLAC 3.0 has been delayed by a few weeks. As a result I’m going to spend much of August sharing useful pieces of the manuscript on line. This section is from the discussion of the purposes of Cold Calling, the first of which may surprise you. In the previous…
Hybrid instruction can feel a bit like juggling–it offers all the challenges of in-person teaching while you also teach an online lesson. But a good model can really make a difference so this video of math teacher Jill Mattis (Bethlehem Central Middle School (NY)) is super-helpful. As a double bonus, I got to ask Jill some…
What a great video I get to share today! This clip is from Sadie McCleary’s Chemistry class at West Guilford HS in Greensboro, NC. It’s striking not just because Sadie uses the chat function brilliantly to keep students active and attentive but because she uses it so effectively to Check for Understanding. Here’s the clip. In…
To state the obvious, hybrid teaching is really hard. Harder, possibly than online teaching. I mean, it IS online teaching except that at the same time you’re also teaching a classroom full of kids. So some days it’s about as hard as online teaching would be if you also had to juggle and sing light rock…