I recently received an email from a teaching friend of mine in which she described the following challenge: “I’ll lead a lesson, and I think it’s going great. I’ll do a lot of Checks For Understanding (CFU), and students will get them right. But then I grade the exit tickets, and I realize that no one…
My colleague Joaquin Hernandez has been reading back through some studies on John Wooden’s coaching. Here are four interesting points from Joaquin’s notes. The last one is my favorite: When Correcting, Sandwich the Model (M+, M-, M+): When you spot an error, stop the player and model how to perform the move correctly (M+), show them how…
Over at TLaC Towers we hold a weekly cutting log meeting (CLM) where we watch video clips of high performing teachers. We use the clips to learn and reflect and also to design workshops and training activities. At last week’s CLM we screened this clip of Uncommon High School’s Kameelah Rasheed teaching Ancient Civ., and…