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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
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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 PLC August 15, 2011
PLC Design Team Michele Mills Eddie Salas Michele Harris Steve Pena Jayne Burton
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:
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?
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) • Weknow 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 using Champion 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 A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. ~Author Unknown The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning. ~Author Unknown Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. ~John Cotton Dana Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them. ~Author Unknown The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William Arthur Ward