Last week I posted a video of soccer coach Khris Clemens using correction instead of critique to help his players improve. Today I’d like to share another clip from Khris’ practice–this one highlighting an important but easily overlooked topic in coaching (and teaching)–maintaining attention. Watching players attend (or not attend) to a coach often reminds me…
In Practice Perfect, Katie and Erica and I wrote about the difference between critique and correction. Critique is telling someone what they did wrong and how they could have done it better. Correction is revision. It’s causing someone to practice doing it better, ideally right away, usually accompanied by explanation but also with action. Critique has…
On June 6 in Tarrytown, NY, we’ll be hosting a one-day workshop on the topic of Pacing, a topic that gets a full chapter with official techniques in Teach Like a Champion 2.0. I usually define Pacing as “the illusion of speed.” It’s your ability to make rigorous work on a given topic feel energetic and…
Jen Kim is the Cruise Director of Team TLaC. She drags us all out onto the (often metaphorical, but sometimes literal) dance floor and encourages us until we think we’re cool, hip, a little bit with it. She talked us into being all hip by posting some “Throwback Thursday” videos, even though many of use weren’t…
As soon as we cut this clip of math teacher Katie Bellucci this week, I knew readers would want to see it. It’s a pretty amazing demonstration of several of the techniques in the (NEW!) Check for Understanding chapters in TLAC 2.0… it’s also a clip I’m likely to add to the 2.0 version of the book……