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Teach Like a Champion!Paula Hagan, Summer 2014
Instructional Coordinator, Northside [email protected]
Teach Like A Champion
“Great teaching is an art… Great art relies on the mastery and application of foundational skills, learned individually through diligent study.”
Participants will understand teaching techniques that will lead to mastery of foundational teaching skills.
Participants will evaluate the techniques presented to identify the one technique that is most critical for immediate implementation.
Objectives:
What do you think?Clip 13: Tight Transitions
Watch the video clip and answer the following questions…
1- In your opinion, is it realistic/worthwhile for a teacher to spend class time on this?
2- What are the benefits of this activity?
3- How would students feel about this activity?
4- What would make an activity like this worthwhile/successful?
Setting High Academic Expectations& Engaging Students In Your Lessons
This was an example of one of the 49 techniques presented in the book.
We will not have time to discuss all 49 techniques, but will focus on two high-yield types of techniques…
Setting High Academic Expectations &
Engaging Students in Your Lessons
Setting High Academic Expectations
No Opt Out Key Idea: A sequence
that begins with a student unable to answer a question should end with a student answering that question as often as possible.
Watch clip 1 3 cues that are helpful… 1- The place where the
answer can be found 2- The step in the
process that’s required at the moment
3- Another name for the term that’s a problem
Setting High Academic Expectations
Right Is Right Key Idea: Set and
defend a high standard of correctness in your classroom.
Watch clips 2 and 3
1- Hold out for all the way
2- Answer the question
3- Right answer, right time
4- Use technical vocabulary
Setting High Academic Expectations
Format Matters Key Idea: It’s not just
what students say that matters but how they communicate it. To succeed, students must take their knowledge and express it in the language of opportunity.
Watch clip 5 1- Grammatical
format Identify the error Begin the correction
2- Complete sentence format
3- Audible format (voice)
4- Unit format (math)
Setting High Academic Expectations
Without Apology Key Idea: There is no such
thing as boring content. In the hands of a great teacher who can find the way in, the material students need to master to succeed and grow is exciting, interesting, and inspiring, even if as teachers we sometimes doubt that we can make it so.
Pitfalls to Avoid: Assuming something
will be boring Blaming it (it’s on the
test; it’s part of the curriculum)
Making it “accessible” (don’t dilute the rigor)
Engaging Students In Your Lessons
Cold Call Key Idea: In order to
make engaged participation the expectation, call on students regardless of whether they have raised their hands.
Cold Call is an engagement technique, not a discipline technique!
Timing the name Watch clip 7, 8, 9
Engaging Students In Your Lessons
Call and Response Key Idea: Use group
choral response – you ask; they answer in unison – to build a culture of energetic, positive engagement.
Benefits: Academic review and
reinforcement High-energy fun Behavioral reinforcement
Risks / Downsides: It can allow freeloading It does not provide effective
checking for understanding It reinforces the behavioral
culture in your classroom only if it’s crisp
Engaging Students In Your Lessons
Pepper Key Idea: The game is
fast, providing dozens of opportunities to practice skills in a short period of time and in a fast-paced and energetic environment. It’s a reinforcement of skills.
Watch clip 10 Variations of Pepper:
Pick sticks Head to head (around
the world) Sit down (earn your
seat)
Engaging Students In Your Lessons
Wait Time Key Idea: Delaying a
few strategic seconds after you finish asking a question and before you ask a student to begin answering
Watch Clip 11 “I’m waiting for more hands” “I’d like to see at least 15
hands before we hear an answer”
“I’ll start taking answers in ten seconds”
“I’m looking for someone who’s pointing to the place in the passage where you can find the answer”
Engaging Students In Your Lessons
Everybody Writes Key Idea: Set your
students up for rigorous engagement by giving them the opportunity to reflect first in writing before discussing. As author Joan Didion says, “I write to know what I think.”
Watch clip 12 Benefits:
Select effective responses
Everyone is prepared All students have a
chance to be part of the conversation
Cl0sing
Take the time to reflect on the teaching techniques discussed.
1- On an exit ticket, write down the techniques you are already using.
2- Now write down at least one technique you plan to use / refine
No Opt Out Right is Right Format Matters Without Apology Cold Call Call and Response Pepper Wait Time Everybody Writes
