Teach like a champion
by Doug Lemov · first published 2010
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2012–2018first – last mentioned
100% recommend
Why HN recommends it
Offers concrete, practical classroom techniques for teaching, with a focus on behavior management and making lessons work. Suited to teachers and anyone who wants to learn how to teach effectively.
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Offers easy-to-apply ideas for becoming an outstanding teacher.
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Over the summer I went through an alternative teacher certification program. The program focused a lot on the techniques in Doug Lemov's book, Teach Like a Champion. I have implemented a few of Lemov's techniques and they have been very helpful in managing classroom behavior.
on “Doug Lemov believes great teachers are made, not born” ↗…effective high school teacher "how do you do it?" What could they tell you? It took a lot of work to learn how to teach: experimentation, analysis, etc...you simply have to learn how to teach! Take a look at Teach Like a Champion 2.0 by Lemov. It answers this precise question! (http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Like-Champion-2-0-Techniques/dp/...).
on “The Null Professor (2014)” ↗Doug Lemov's book "Teach Like a Champion" is great: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1118901851/ref=dbs_a_def_r... I'd also recommend "Teaching as Leadership": https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-As-Leadership-Effective-Achi...
on “Can good teaching be taught?” ↗…very good research on boosting student achievement in another charter school network, the Uncommon Schools network http://www.uncommonschools.org/our-approach/thought-leadersh... that produced the book Teach Like a Champion. http://teachlikeachampion.wiley.com/ http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470... Practicing the techniques in that book is improving my own teaching as a private-practice mathematics…
on “Stay focused - New research on how to close the achievement gap” ↗…answer would be "the value of 5 in 582 is 500 because the 5 is in the hundreds place". This distinction is something that many teachers overlook. There is an excellent handbook for teachers called "Teach Like A Champion" [1] which emphasises that "Right is Right" - here is an excerpt: --------------------------------- Right Is Right is about the difference between partially right and all-the-way right—between pretty…
on “Massachusetts’s Rejection of Common Core Test Signals Shift in U.S” ↗…let alone taught to new teachers, let alone to current teachers. See http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Teachers-t.html... and the book that came out of the research featured in the article: "Teach Like a Champion".
on “Step 1: give every kid a laptop. Step 2: learning begins?” ↗…don't grow up with the advantages I grew up with in suburban Minnesota and Wisconsin. I suggest readers of Hacker News take a look at the research originating in that organization, especially the book Teach Like a Champion, http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470... for ideas about how to fix the problems mentioned in the article submitted here.
…"ignore your needs!" don't last (I think they lead to burnout) because they don't address psychology. I don't know the solution, but I'll hazard: teachers need more methods, better curricula, more support. Teach Like a Champion is the one of the best books on practical teaching, and on human relations I've ever read. Unfortunately, "don't worry about it!" is as impractical as "teachers and society must improve!" But like I…
on “Why I Just Asked My Students to Put Their Laptops Away (2014)” ↗Another fix would be to train teachers better: give them actual training in classroom techniques. See "Building a Better Teacher (NYT)[0] & Teach Like a Champion 2.0 [1] [0]http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Teachers-t.html... [1]http://smile.amazon.com/Teach-Like-Champion-2-0-Techniques/d...
on “How Much Is a Good Teacher Worth? (2011)” ↗…good practice in the charter school sector, serving mostly low-income minority students, is the work of the Uncommon Schools charter school network, http://www.uncommonschools.org/ where Doug Lemov's Teach Like a Champion principles have been carefully monitored for their effectiveness in boosting student learning. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Teachers-t.html http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470...…
on “Firestorm Erupts Over Virginia's Education Goals” ↗…skills that a teacher needs to have to teach a class effectively. There is much interesting research on this coming from the charter school movement, with some of the best how-to research coming from the Teach Like a Champion[3] project. I love learning about new ways to be a more effective teacher. Besides actual teacher skills, another grave problem in United States school is extremely poor teaching materials[4] and I devote…
on “You think you know what teachers do. Right? Wrong.” ↗