Teach Like a Champion : : 49 Techniques That put Students on the Path to College

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DVD contains examples of some of the techniques described in the book.
Includes index.
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: additional techniques for questioning and responding to students -- How all teachers can (and must) be reading teachers -- The fundamentals: teaching decoding, vocabulary, development, and fluency -- Comprehension: teaching students to understand what they read.
Easy-to-apply ideas for becoming an outstanding teacher.

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almost a 5 star submitted by hathaway1066 on July 14, 2014, 7:53pm I'd have given this a full 5 stars but I shy away from doing so as the author, while giving many, many REALLY useful, solid, concrete tips for how to improve teaching, falls into a bit of the Michelle Rhee 'school' of thought, with a do-more/be-more approach to school improvement that doesn't look beyond teachers and their ability to improve outcomes. Maybe that's not the focus--it IS usefully focused teachers--but I'd like if there were some consideration of how schools/society need to support what a good teacher does in the classroom, not just measure and judge that teacher's students' outcomes.

(Okay, enough with editorial, maybe...)

All that said, I bought the book and plan to invest a good deal of time in going back over it and working it's ideas into what I do in the classroom, and I thanks Lemov for his having broken new ground by giving such clear and concrete tips on how to improve instruction and classroom management.