Teach like a champion: 49 techniques that put students on the path to college

Teach Like a Champion offers effective teaching techniques to help teachers, especially those in their first few years, become champions in the classroom. These powerful techniques are concrete, specific, and are easy to put into action the very next day. Training activities at the end of each chapter help thereader further their understanding through reflection and application of the ideas to their own practice. Among the techniques: Technique #1: No Opt Out. How to move students from the blank stare or stubborn shrug to giving the rightanswer every time. Technique #35: Do It Again. When students fail to successfully complete a basic taskfrom entering the classroom quietly to passing papers arounddoing it again, doing it right, and doing it perfectly, results in thebest consequences. Technique #38: No Warnings. If you're angry with your students, it usually means you should be angry with yourself. This technique showshow to effectively address misbehaviors in your classroom. The book includes a DVD of 25 video clips of teachers demonstrating the techniques in the classroom.Doug Lemov is a Managing Director of Uncommon Schools and Superintendent of its True North Public Schools network. Mr. Lemov is formerly the President of School Performance, and former Vice President for Accountability, at the State University of New York Charter Schools Institute--the leading authorizer of charters in New York. He is also a founder and the former principal of the Academy of the Pacific Rim Charter School in Boston, a high performing urban charter school. Over the last decade, Mr. Lemov has served as a consultant to such nationally known organizations as KIPP, New Leaders for New Schools, and Building Excellent Schools--and is a Trustee of the New York Charter Schools Association. He holds a BA from Hamilton College, an MA from Indiana University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-55047-2
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 352
• Fecha Publicación: 05/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés