Welcome!Today’s Schedule

8:30-9:00 Coffee

9:00 Mixer and Introduction of 2011-2012 PLC Team

What does it look like to Teach Like a Champion?

10:00 Break

10:15 Teach Like a Champion overview

Technique Session 1

11:30 Lunch-Add to Google Doc PowerPoint

1:00 Reflection

2:15 Break

2:30 Technique Session 2

2:30 Break

2:45 Technique Session 3

Reflection and What’s Next?

Wrap-Up

Teach Like A Champion: 49 Techniques that Put

Students on the Path to College

By Doug Lemov

Boerne-Samuel V. Champion High School

PLCAugust 15, 2011

Michele Mills

Michele Harris

Jayne Burton

Eddie Salas

Steve Pena

PLC Design Team

What Does Teaching Like a Champion Look Like?• This is a multi-modal opportunity to display your

knowledge.

• Choose from the following techniques for your group presentation:

Sculpt-It Paint-It Sing-It

Dance-It Tech-It Collage-It

Write-It Act-It Draw-It

Activity Parameters

• You have 15 minutes to show through your chosen medium what great teaching is.

• There are limited resources on the table.

• Each group will have 2 minutes to make their presentations.

Share-Out

What does it look like to

TEACH LIKE A CHAMPION?

That was AWESOME!

Time for a Break

Book Introduction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1CMvuFLfxc

About the Author, Doug Lemov• Taught English and history at university, high

school, middle school levels

• MBA from Harvard Business School

• Founder/Principal of the Academy of the Pacific Rim Charter School in Boston

• Managing Director, Uncommon Schools 16 college prep charter high need schools in NY/NJ

• President of School Performance Organization helping schools use data for decision

making

• Vice President for Accountability at the State University of New York Charter Schools Institute

Teaching Like A Champion

• Building systems of classroom culture and instruction

• Taxonomy of effective teaching practices

• Micro-techniques that make all the difference in student learning

• Techniques vs. strategy: A thing you say or do in a particular way vs. a

generalized approach

• Transforming students at risk of failure into achievers and believers

The Essential Techniques Setting High Academic Expectations

Planning that Ensures Academic Achievement

Structuring and Delivering Your Lessons

Engaging Students in Your Lessons

Creating a Strong Classroom Culture

Setting and Maintaining High Behavioral Expectations

Building Character and Trust

Improving Your Pacing : Additional Techniques for Creating a Positive Rhythm in the Classroom

Challenging Students to Think Critically

The Five Principles of Classroom Culture

1. Discipline

2. Management

3. Control

4. Influence

5. Engagement

The Synergy of the Five Principles

Teaching Techniques

• Tight Transitions (154)

• Entry Routines (151)

• Props (163)

• Do Now (152)

Share-out/Reflection• Think-Group-Share

Think of how you would use these techniques in your class.

Share with your small group.

During lunch:• Log onto BISD Google Apps

• Edit the PowerPoint, “Creating a Champion Classroom Culture,” by adding your group notes to a group slide.

Lunch

• Do not forget to create your group slide by editing our Google Doc!

Taking a Look Back

Reflecting on your teaching experiences from last school

year:

• What do you need to STOP doing?

• What do you need to CHANGE?

• What is working so well that you want to SHARE it with the world?

Share-Out

• Voice Matters!

• What do you need to STOP doing?

• What do you need to CHANGE?

• What is working so well that you want to SHARE it with the world?

Setting High Academic Expectations

• Living up to our school name.

• “Everybody learns in a high-performing classroom, and expectations are high even for students who don’t yet have high expectations for themselves” (28).

No Opt Out (28)• High expectations for all

students

• “It’s not okay not to try.”

• Sequence of helping reluctant students answer questions and participate successfully

• A technique that normalizes the process with students who need it the most.

• Four different formats Clip 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwnGusgqDEc

No Opt Out (28)• Possible reasons that students might opt out of

answering a question you have asked: A student is actively testing or defying you.

A student is trying not to stand out in the classroom.

A student genuinely does not know the answer.

A student is embarrassed to not know the answer.

A student did not hear you when you asked.

A student did not understand what you asked.

Right is Right (35)• High standard for

correctness: 100%

• Hold out for all the way correctness

• Use positive language

Students:

• Right answer, right time

• Use technical vocabulary Clip 3

Format Matters (47)

• Grammatical Format

• Complete Sentences

• Sentence starters

• Reminders

• Audible Format

• “Voice”

• Unit Format (math and science)

Example of Right is Right and Format Matters

Renatta Gass is out with friends when they find themselves getting a workout. They must apply a cumulative force of 1080 N to push the car 218 m to the nearest gas station. How much work was done on the car?

Share-Out/Reflection

• Think-Group-Share

Think of how you would use these techniques in your class.

Share with your small group.

Share with the large group.

Break

• Scavenger Hunt Images

Engaging Your Students

Engaging Your Students

• Carry-over from Eric Jensen’s Brain-Based Learning

• Engaging students makes them feel as if they are active participants in the lesson.

• Focused involvement in the classroom.

• Students should not only be engaged in the class, but in the work of the class.

• Be careful of substituting “frills” for SUBSTANCE!

Cold Call (111)• Predictable – anticipation keeps students engaged

• Systematic – universal not personal

• Positive – fosters positive engagement

• Scaffolded – simple to harder questions Clips 7-8

Cold Call Technology

• Teacher’s Pick iPhone App Thanks to Rhonda Booth for the tip!

• When you come across something great! Share it on the Champion PLC Wiki:

http://championpd.wikispaces.com/

Stretch It (41) • Rewarding right answers with more

questions

• Used to check for understanding

• Challenge students to apply their knowledge.

• Ask how or why

• Ask for another way to answer

• Ask for a better word

• Ask for evidence

• Ask students to integrate a related skill

• Students apply skills in new setting

Clip 4

Everybody Writes (137)• Model…Model…Model!!!!!!

Show the type of writing that is required by your discipline.

Expect students to “format.”

• Reflect in writing before discussing “I write to know what I think.”~Joan Didion

• Every student participates

• Thought refining process

• Students remember twice as much

Clip 12

Exit Tickets (106)• Make it quick

• Data, Data, and more Data

• Opportunity to analyze your lesson

Every Minute Matters (230)

• We know the expectation

• WORK BELL TO BELL!

• Time is precious and should not be given away blithely. “We don’t have time to start anything new.” “We worked hard, so I’m giving you all a few

minutes to relax.”

• Use the time for high-energy review.

• Use the time to pose challenges.

Share-Out/Reflection

• On a Post-It note pick one technique and describe how you will use it in your classroom.

• Slap your Exit Ticket on one of the posters by the lobby doors.

• We will discuss the responses after the break.

Break

• Scavenger Hunt Images

Follow-Up

• Exit Tickets

A Little Extra Tip:• Did you know that the Post-It Note folks have a great website

for lessons using Post-It Notes? http://teachers.post-it.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/Post-it-Teachers/Home/

What’s Next?

Champion Teachers usingChampion Techniques

• Read the book! We’ve given you the 3-D trailer! There are three

dozen more techniques to explore (and a part 2).

• Invitations/Requests to visit classes Colleagues visiting each others’ classrooms to

get great teaching tips

• Documenting through video Sharing through a “Flip-Out”

• Great teaching techniques in action archived for posterity.

Final Thoughts and Wrap-Up

The mediocre teacher tells.

The good teacher explains.

The superior teacher

demonstrates. The great

teacher inspires.

~William Arthur Ward

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. ~Author Unknown

Teachers who inspire realize

there will always be ro

cks in

the road ahead of us. T

hey

will be stumbling blocks or

stepping stones; it all

depends on how we use

them. ~Author Unknown

Who dares to

teach must never

cease to learn.

~John Cotton Dana

The secret of teaching is

to appear to have known

all your life what you just

learned this morning.

~Author Unknown