News
Entertainment
Science & Technology
Life
Culture & Art
Hobbies
News
Entertainment
Science & Technology
Culture & Art
Hobbies
- home
›- Doug Lemov's Field Notes
›- Education & Personal Development
Doug Lemov's Field Notes - Education & Personal Development
10 | Follower
Memo Sifuentes’ Halftime Framework for Young Athletes | Teach Like a Champion
Memo Sifuentes coaches the u14s (and formerly the u12s) at Austin FC’s Youth Academy. I always find him incredibly thoughtful and intentional about the teaching part of his job. We’ve been talking a bit over the past year about game day coaching: what to do to maximize long-term learning at halftime, in pregame talks, during...
Managing (Your Own) Working Memory: How Julia Uses Her “Monitoring Key” | Teach Like a Champion
Yesterday I posted about the challenges of managing limits on Working Memory for teachers. We know we’ve got to design our teaching to respond to the challenges the classrooms presents for student’s Working Memory, but we’ve also got to be thinking about the under-acknowledge issue of our own working memory overloads. Walking around the classroom...
Teaching Advice From Taylor (Swift) | Teach Like a Champion
A colleague who attended our recent workshop for medical educators, Josie Amory of Seattle, WA, passed along this Instagram post from Taylor Swift about her concert preparation routine: “This insta post reminded me of the discussion we had about working memory and habits good teachers use to reduce their dependence on working memory, which in...
Erica Woolway: Studying the Art of Facilitating Professional Development | Teach Like a Champion
Teachers deserve to love studying their work and improving their craft. They deserve great professional development characterized by smart, practical content and by facilitation that models what great teaching looks like. One of the shocking things about our field is how rarely that happens. On Team TLAC, we take delivering PD seriously. We think teachers should...
How Katie Jukes Builds Contagious Enthusiasm for Learning | Teach Like a Champion
Last week I posted a really lovely video of Beth Peakman’s Cold Call and Wait Time at Rivers Primary Academy in Walsall, England. Today I get to share another video from the same school. This one is of Katie Jukes’ year two maths lesson. It shows how Katie build contagious enthusiasm for learning. Katie...
Beth Peakman Combines Cold Call, Wait Time and Stretch It While Reading Wind in the Willows | Teach Like a Champion
We’ve recently had the pleasure of watching a few great videos shared with us by the team at Rivers Primary Academy in Walsall, England. The clips exemplify not just impressive implementation and adaptation of TLAC techniques but–pretty clearly, we think a culture that takes the support and development of teachers seriously. I’m going to share...
Simple Tools Ben Katcher Uses To Keep The Big Group on Task (So He Can Work With a Small Group) | Teach Like a Champion
Watered down instruction is a problem in American classrooms. TNTP’s 2018 white paper, The Opportunity Myth describes the scope of this problem. The average student “spent more than 500 hours per school year on assignments that weren’t appropriate for their grade and with instruction that didn’t ask enough of them—the equivalent of six months of wasted class time...
Phil and Me, Part 2: Deeper Into the Master’s Words | Teach Like a Champion
Recently I shared a mortifying secret: I had been the subject of a full-scale take down–a full scale multimedia take down–at the hands of Phil Beadle himself. It hurt, I have to say, to hear the things one of the heroes of the movement had to say about me. [Silver lining: he did say I...
Phil and Me | Teach Like a Champion
Well, it’s been a bit of a tough week for me! Phil Beadle, a highly renowned master teacher and author of teaching advice books sort of lowered the boom on my work in the most unceremonious way! This was devastating of course. Imagine how it felt to have the master himself accuse me of perpetuating “symbolic...
What We’ll Be Talking About at Our Building Strong Behavior & Culture Workshop May 11 & 12 | Teach Like a Champion
Vibrant, positive, productive classroom culture is a foundation of learning. Students do their best work when their time is honored and when they feel safe, successful and known. But easier said than done. It’s hard work building pitch-perfect cultures that maximize learning. On May 11 and 12 in Troy, NY (just outside Albany) we’ll spend two...