Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

03.06.13 Annals of Coaching: Chris Apple’s Desert Island Drill

After my previous post, I got kind of intrigued with the idea of a Desert Island Drill.  I think it’s important as a coach or teacher to invest heavily in your best exercises and to leverage the benefit of re-using and adapting things your students have learned to do efficiently. The only problem was that the…