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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 the reader 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 right answer every time.
• Technique #35: Do It Again. When students fail to successfully complete a basic task?from entering the classroom quietly to passing papers around?doing it again, doing it right, and doing it perfectly, results in the best consequences.
• Technique #38: No Warnings. If you're angry with your students, it usually means you should be angry with yourself. This technique shows how to effectively address misbehaviors in your classroom.

Please note that the kindle edition does not come with a DVD.
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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 the reader 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 right answer every time.
• Technique #35: Do It Again. When students fail to successfully complete a basic task?from entering the classroom quietly to passing papers around?doing it again, doing it right, and doing it perfectly, results in the best consequences.
• Technique #38: No Warnings. If you're angry with your students, it usually means you should be angry with yourself. This technique shows how to effectively address misbehaviors in your classroom.

The book includes a DVD of 25 video clips of teachers demonstrating the techniques in the classroom.

Top Five Things Every Teacher Needs to Know (or Do) to Be Successful
Amazon-exclusive content from author Doug Lemov

1. Simplicity is underrated. A simple idea well-implemented is an incredibly powerful thing.

2. You know your classroom best. Always keep in mind that what?s good is what works in your classroom.

3. Excellent teaching is hard work. Excellent teachers continually strive to learn and to master their craft. No matter how good a teacher is it?s always possible to be better.

4. Every teacher must be a reading teacher. Reading is the skill our students need.

5. Teaching is the most important job in the world. And it?s also the most difficult.

Amazon Exclusive: Q&A with Author Doug Lemov

?Great teachers are born, not made?? You obviously disagree with this statement?please tell us why.
A few teachers may be born with an intuitive gift for teaching but I when I watch a great teacher I see mostly hard work and attention to detail. So believe that great teachers can be made. Every teacher can improve by using proven, concrete techniques in the classroom. This question brings to mind two amazing teachers I know?Julie Jackson and Colleen Driggs. Julie and Colleen are always doing things like reviewing their lesson plans on the way to work and talking with peers about how to improve their craft. It?s exciting to me that what we may attribute to natural talent is actually hard work. You can choose to work hard and improve and become exactly the teacher you want to be.

What?s the best way for a teacher to start the year with a new class?
It?s important to build systems and routines, as I describe in chapter six, ?Setting and Maintaining High Behavioral Expectations? in Teach Like a Champion. The first day of school should be teaching students the right way to do things and practicing this over and over. Learning and practicing these systems and routines allows a teacher and her students to rely on this foundation for the rest of the year.

I once witnessed Dave Levin (who is a founder of KIPP schools and a fantastic teacher) begin a teacher training workshop in an interesting way. Dave started by handing a mirror to every teacher in the room. He said, ?Your classroom is a mirror. It looks however you make it look. The first step is to believe that your classroom mirrors your decisions. You can control it.? That?s the first step. To accept that as a teacher you decide who you want to be and how you want to create your classroom culture. You own it. Some people do it so you can do it. And that?s a good thing.

If you could just change one thing in our nation?s schools, what would you change?
It?s important that we do everything possible to support teachers so that they love their work and can be successful in the classroom. In my opinion, teachers should get paid the same as professional athletes or film stars.

This book is largely based on your experience with the group of charter schools you help lead on the east coast, called Uncommon Schools. Please tell us more about Uncommon Schools.
Uncommon Schools is a group of schools that serve low-income populations in urban centers in New York and New Jersey. Across our 16 schools 98% of our students scored proficient in math and just below 90% in English. This means that our schools usually outperform more privileged suburban districts.

We?ve been using the 49 techniques in my book for 5 years, with our teachers constantly refining and adding to them. Our experience has proven not only that that these techniques work?and they can work in every school and in every classroom?but that great teachers make them better and more sophisticated over time. And best of all the teachers who practice using them find themselves in control of a happy, rigorous classroom that reflects the motivations that brought them to teaching in the first place. Successful teachers are happy teachers!

Acknowledgments.

Foreword (Norman Atkins, founder of Uncommon Schools, founder and CEO of Teacher U).

Introduction: The Art of Teaching and its Tools.

Part One: Teach Like a Champion: The Essential Techniques.

Chapter One. Setting High Academic Expectations.

Technique 1. No Opt Out.

Technique 2. Right is Right.

Technique 3. Stretch It.

Technique 4. Format Matters.

Technique 5. Without Apology.

Reflection and Practice.

Chapter Two. Planning that Ensures Academic Achievement.

Technique 6. Begin With The End.

Technique 7. 4Ms.

Technique 8. Post It.

Technique 9. Shortest Path.

Technique 10. Double Plan.

Technique 11. Draw the Map.

Reflection and Practice.

Chapter Three. Structuring and Delivering Your Lessons.

Technique 12. Hook.

Technique 13. Name the Steps.

Technique 14. Board = Paper.

Technique 15. Circulate.

Technique 16. Break It Down.

Technique 17. Ratio

Technique 18. Check For Understanding.

Technique 19. At-Bats.

Technique 20. Exit Ticket.

Technique 21. Take a Stand.

Reflection and Practice.

Chapter Four. Engaging Students in Your Lessons.

Technique 22. Cold Call.

Technique 23. Call and Response.

Technique 24. Pepper.

Technique 25. Wait Time.

Technique 26. Everybody Writes.

Technique 27. Vegas.

Reflection and Practice.

Chapter Five. Creating a Strong Classroom Culture.

Technique 28. Entry Routine.

Technique 29. Do Now.

Technique 30. Tight Transitions.

Technique 31. Binder Control.

Technique 32. SLANT.

Technique 33. On Your Mark.

Technique 34. Seat Signals.

Technique 35. Props.

Reflection and Practice.

Chapter Six. Setting and Maintaining High Behavioral Expectations.

Technique 36. 100%.

Technique 37. What To Do.

Technique 38. Strong Voice.

Technique 39. Do It Again.

Technique 40. Sweat the Details.

Technique 41. Threshold.

Technique 42. No Warnings.

Reflection and Practice.

Chapter Seven. Building Character and Trust.

Technique 43. Positive Framing.

Technique 44. Precise Praise.

Technique 45. Warm/Strict.

Technique 46. The J-Factor.

Technique 47. Emotional Constancy.

Technique 48. Explain Everything.

Technique 49. Normalize Error.

Reflection and Practice.

Chapter Eight: Improving Your Pacing: Additional.

Techniques for Creating a Positive Rhythm in the Classroom.

Change the Pace.

Brighten Lines.

All Hands.

Every Minute Matters.

Look Forward.

Work the Clock.

Chapter Nine: Challenging Students to Think Critically: Additional Techniques for Questioning and Responding to Students.

One at a Time.

Simple to Complex.

Verbatim (No bait and switch).

Clear and Concise.

Stock Questions.

Hit Rate.

Part Two: Learn How to Help Students Improve Their Reading: Critical Skills and Techniques.

Chapter Ten: How All Teachers Can (and Must) Be Reading Teachers.

Chapter Eleven: The Fundamentals: Teaching Decoding, Vocabulary Development, and Fluency.

Chapter Twelve: Comprehension: Teaching Students to Understand What They Read.

Appendix: Behind the Scenes Interviews.

Conclusion.

About the Author.

Index.