Here’s a rundown of that video of Amarillo Texas Caprock High’s Beth Brannon that I promised in my recent post about unexpectedness. Beth uses, by my count, 11 techniques from Teach Like a Champion 2.0 in the clip (!), though you might never know it unless you watched carefully. Her productive class seems like a happy…
I’m writing about Positive Framing … the final steps of TLAC 2.0 and I want to give some examples. What I’ve come up with is OK but the insights I got when I asked for input from readers on Exit Tickets was so good that I thought I’d enlist your collective advice again. For this exercise, please…
Some of the most popular sections in Teach Like a Champion are the parts of the book about establishing systems and routines to make the classroom more efficient and maximize instructional time. This section will get a revision in TLAC 2.0 with lots of updates and improvements. One small but useful addition is this short sidebar…
Revising the Exit Tickets section from 2.0 before i put the Lesson Structure chapter to bed. If you use Exit Tickets and could share one “best practice” and/or one “lesson learned” what would they be? Look forward to your comments!
One of the sections that some readers might find especially “new” in the 2.0 version of TLaC is the chapter on building Ratio through discussion. (Aside: there are three chapters on Ratio in the new book: one on questioning, one on writing and one on discussion… not bad for a concept that was merely one technique…