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7 years

Finally proof that knowledge doesn't matter when you can just look anything up on google.

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8 months

Visiting my daughter's high school today. They've recently restricted cellphone. So many students siting in groups in the cafeteria, laughing & talking...chatting in the hallways... it's a different place. Side note: I asked a teacher what the biggest change is... Ready?

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This is only my opinion but if you want to mitigate learning loss from the pandemic for your child (or any child) read aloud to or with them from a challenging & engaging book at or slightly above their comfort range for independent reading as much as you possibly can.

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2 years

Writing things down encodes them in memory. This simple fact is woefully underutilized in too many classrooms.

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8 months

Answer: "Kids are in class so much more! They used to "go to the bathroom" all the time but now it's clear they were just using their phones. No phones means they're in class much more."

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5 years

No one becomes a teacher bc they aspire to tell students to sit down or stop calling out. But none of the academic magic happens w/o a foundation of behavioral expectation that's clear, consistent, occasionally tenacious & always seasoned w love & belief in students.

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Doug Lemov

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4 years

Is this too obvious to point out? As challenging as online teaching has been this year, we've done it on a foundation of in-person relationships we spent seven months building in real classrooms. Next year we may not be working off that foundation.

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The socioemotional distress students are experiencing is as much a product of the cellphone epidemic as it is a product of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Take Away Their Cellphones

… So we can rewire schools for belonging and achievement

www.educationnext.org

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Doug Lemov

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4 years

Preparing carefully beforehand is the best way to be ready to improvise successfully during a lesson. When you know your lesson well, your working memory is free to perceive what students are doing & thinking. This allows you to better decide how to make adaptations & changes.

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2 years

This image is from @BradleyKBusch forthcoming "Teaching and Learning Illuminated" and it captures perfectly how Cold Call and Wait Time can boost Ratio... especially as he points out during Retrieval Practice. #teachinggold

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2 years

When a procedure becomes a routine it focuses student working memory on learning. When it becomes a visible predictable norm it motivates and shapes positive behavior.

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3 years

Can every teacher please be required to watch this?

Carl Hendrick

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3 years

This clip of Barak Rosenshine talking about 'higher order thinking skills' is one of the single most important things for teachers to know about learning.

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5 years

If it was true that facts are unimportant & you can 'just google' anything, then people would have googled the science & know that knowledge encoded in long term memory is the basis of critical thinking. In other words they would have just googled the fact that they were wrong.

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Doug Lemov

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3 years

Going to bed my littlest (12) told me her English teacher has been reading books aloud during remote classes & she’s found it pleasurable & peaceful & the books have felt especially meaningful- read aloud & shared. That’s one kid’s opinion at bedtime. But it made me happy.

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Doug Lemov

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2 years

“We don’t learn by doing. We learn by thinking.” One of the best presentations on cognitive science I have seen. Thank you @hruizmartin

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2 years

Tweeted yesterday to ask coaches to weigh in on pregame & half time talks. Lots of people shared insights. For that, thanks- to everyone! A couple of themes emerged that I really like... 1/

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2 years

The news is bad. Anyone who was paying attention knew it would be. In responding, the biggest barrier to improving student achievement going forward will be adults who are not focused enough on improving student achievement.

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3 years

You're the head of a school. Your teaching staff agree to take four concrete, specific actions in each lesson to ensure rigor/maximize learning if you make a list of them. "Don't be vague," they say. "If there's one nebulous platitude, the deal is off." What's on your list?

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Doug Lemov

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4 years

This is a really super one-page guide to remote/online teaching. Really helpful!!

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4 years

I made this chart describing how to emulate effective classroom instruction with remote teaching tools. Inspired very much by @teacherhead @Doug_Lemov and @daisychristo

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2 months

I have seen SO MANY schools like this is the past year. One principal said, of the near chaos she had foisted upon students, "We are dismantling systems of oppression." There is far more oppression in the disorder you've created, even if you've put up banners touting its

Ruth Ashbee

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2 months

“I’m tired of going into schools that have fallen into chaos because somebody decided that sanctions are wrong, and that therapeutic approaches and talking are all that’s needed “ — @tombennett71 on the money #rEDBrum

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Doug Lemov

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2 years

Just re-drafted my forgetting curve graphic to try to show that when done well, retrieval grows the top line- ie students aren't just preserving what they learned initially but growing/expanding it. (Also kind of a window into what nerdy people like me do for fun)

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2 years

Cold Call- a great illustration and a great example on video:

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5 years

“Children who struggle when reading texts aloud do not become good readers if left to read silently; their dysfluency merely becomes inaudible.” Mark Seidenberg from Language at the Speed of Sight

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Doug Lemov

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3 years

This quote from @dylanwiliam is gold: " "Teaching is interesting because learners are so different; it’s only possible because they are so similar.” It's easy to let the former distract from the latter...

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Doug Lemov

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2 years

A side note though- if I had to bet on a teacher to be exceptional I’d bet on the one who reacts with appreciation at other peoples ideas rather than the one who reacts with defensiveness. But that’s just me.

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Doug Lemov

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5 years

One reason students don’t follow our directions is...the directions themselves. We can improve classroom culture & student relationships by giving directions that are clear, easy to follow, provide solutions, & make students feel successful. This technique is called What To Do

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Doug Lemov

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2 years

Restricting access to cell phones during all or part of the school day is really hard but also really important. Possibly the first keeps the second from happening. If you're a school that does so successfully, I'd love to hear your advice to others on making it work.

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Doug Lemov

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5 years

In Orlando for Disney Showcase. Costs: Club fee+5 days hotel+car+flights (>exp week of year). Plus $55 per person at the fields to see your own kid play. Just about every college coach is here. Guess who's getting recruited? Parking lot says its those who drive lexus+land rover.

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Doug Lemov

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6 years

She 'thought it was her own apartment'? On a different floor? When her key didn't work? When he opened the door? and her first move was to SHOOT? #BothamJean

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Doug Lemov

@Doug_Lemov

3 years

This is an excellent summary of Retrieval Practice fundamentals.

Kate Jones

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3 years

Thanks again to @MissH_biology for this infographic summary of my book 😁👏🏻

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Doug Lemov

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4 years

There are few things more inclusive you can do than to ask someone's opinion, especially when they do not yet know whether their voice is valued in a room. To ask student who has not volunteered, "What do you think?" is to tell them their voice matters. #ColdCall

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Doug Lemov

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5 months

In the classroom, the implications of working memory and its limits are at least as important for teachers as they are for students... If, for example, you write down observations as you circulate...

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Doug Lemov

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10 months

Unesco calls for global ban on phones in schools "Excessive mobile phone use was linked to reduced educational performance and that high levels of screen time had a negative effect on children’s emotional stability." ht @C_Hendrick

‘Put learners first’: Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools

Major UN report issues warning over excessive use, with one in six countries already banning the devices

www.theguardian.com

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Doug Lemov

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4 years

Starting in March my team & I watched as much video of online instruction as we could. We put what we learned into this guide, designed to help teachers deliver the best possible online teaching. Plenty of video clips too. Available in late August.

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6 months

The biggest barrier to student achievement is adults not focused enough on student achievement.

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5 years

Major project my team has been working on this year: knowledge-rich, writing-intensive curriculum based on challenging novels. Can’t wait for y’all to see it.

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2 years

Why habits in the classroom? Every task you can manage to do with a minimal load on working memory allows you to use the remaining capacity for something more important.

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Doug Lemov

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4 years

I've re-shared this video of one of the teachers we study & learn from the most at TLAC. He's using a variety of techniques in exactly the way my colleagues & I envision it. Hope this helps you understand our work.

A Case Study in the Power of Academic Procedures and Routines - Teach Like a Champion

Perhaps the single most powerful way to bring efficiency, focus and rigor to a classroom is by installing strong procedures and routines. You define a right way to do recurring tasks; you practice...

teachlikeachampion.org

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Doug Lemov

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3 years

A lot of people are loving this visual that shows the impact of "timing the name" when Cold Calling. I agree that it's great and just want to make sure it's clear that the credit goes to @geotayler . I loved it too & my role was merely to riff on it (a little) in a blog post!

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Doug Lemov

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3 years

A neat online teaching point from @mklugman : if you say a student's name & then ask the question you give them time to get their mic on so there's less awkward delay. In physical classrooms question, pause, name wins. Online name, pause question is often better.

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Doug Lemov

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3 years

Access to reading instruction informed by science is an equity issue. When we return in the fall we have the opportunity to make the shift- a commitment to phonics in the early grades & to knowledge-based instruction w lots of fluency work on complex texts in the middle grades.

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Doug Lemov

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4 years

Great curriculum requires great teaching; great teaching requires great curriculum. Got to develop them both together and in synergy.

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1 year

"Despite the intuitive appeal, there is little to no empirical evidence that learning styles are real. The fields of cognitive psychology and neuroscience consider them a “neuromyth”."

The Stubborn Myth of “Learning Styles”

State teacher-license prep materials peddle a debunked theory

www.educationnext.org

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Doug Lemov

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3 years

There are few things more inclusive you can do than to ask someone's opinion, especially when they do not yet know whether their voice is valued in a room. To ask student who has not volunteered, "What do you think?" is to tell them their voice matters. #ColdCall

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Doug Lemov

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5 years

Reading aloud to –or with--students puts you in the sweet spot for vocabulary development: maximum number of rare words per minute; maximum degree of additional information to expand and cement meaning.

Why Reading Aloud to Students is So Critical to Vocabulary - Teach Like a Champion

Last night, after reading aloud to my daughter and tucking her in, I was mopping up a bit of work from the day and came across this observation by Isabel Beck: “The source of later vocabulary...

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3 years

Just back from a meeting. Found a box of these on my doorstep. Not much longer now!

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2 years

Belonging is one of the most powerful human emotions. We all yearn to belong to groups & communities that value and know us…what we believe we belong to shapes our identities…

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4 months

“The big mistake we have made in the United States is to assume that if we want students to be able to think, then our curriculum should give our students lots of practice thinking. This is a mistake because what our students need is more to think with.” -- @dylanwiliam

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3 years

Right now is a really hard time to keep up for so many teachers. To help out we're offering this unit... about 5 weeks of daily lesson plans, adapted slightly from our Reading Reconsidered Curric. to all teachers. They focus on 4 stories & 3 poems:

A Hard Time to Be a Teacher, Pt 2: Free Reading Reconsidered Lesson Plans - Teach Like a Champion

Two weeks ago we wrote about how hard it is to be a teacher right now. The challenges and pressures of returning to the classroom combined with unprecedented staff shortages have put everyone...

teachlikeachampion.org

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Doug Lemov

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3 years

This really cool story (how Paul Simon wrote Bridge Over Troubled Water) is also kind of a case study in how background knowledge fuels creativity. If you want people to create things, teach them to know things.

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3 years

I have never seen a songwriter break down — note by note — the process by which he wrote a tune like @PaulSimonMusic does here with “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. (1970) What a joyful exchange. 🙏🏼 (via @jfreewright @PaulEWalsh ) @openculture

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Most people assume reading is an individual act but a good classroom makes it a group activity. Even down to the act of reading the text aloud together. The feeling of having shared the experience of hearing. That’s where stories began.

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3 years

Students read more slowly and understand less if it's noisy. Greatest effect on weakest readers.

Loudness and Intelligibility of Irrelevant Background Speech Differentially Hinder Children's Short...

Lay abstract: Children often read in noisy environments, but we know little about how background chatter might affect their reading. Here, we found that 8-10-year-old children read stories more...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Doug Lemov

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6 years

Just finished @HFletcherWood 's Responsive Teaching. It's a massive accomplishment & absolutely outstanding- the most comprehensive summary of learning science & how to use it I have read. I urge you to read it.

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1 year

A 🧵: I’ve written a lot recently about schools & phones… specifically how schools can only do the job that’s laid out for us post-pandemic—namely to maximize learning &belonging—by restricting cell phones. You can read more about that here: Or...

Take Away Their Cellphones

… So we can rewire schools for belonging and achievement

www.educationnext.org

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Doug Lemov

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6 years

Here's how to build relationships with students: Show them: Your success is important to me I believe in you I am highly aware of your progress in this endeavor I will help you succeed

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5 years

Holy terrifying. Visiting in-laws and just found this in a drawer.

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7 years

This is still one of the best ideas I've seen for reducing teacher workload.

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2 years

Experts learn more from a given experience because they can connect it to their prior knowledge. It’s the connections that build memory and allow us to learn. @hruizmartin (translation inexact)

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The curse of expertise is the idea that people who teach/coach are usually experts in their content area, & this makes them relatively blind to what people they are teaching (who are not (yet) experts) do not & will not understand... 1/x

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6 years

If you're using Knowledge Organizers or just want to teach students how to master a body of knowledge this excellent video by @jon_brunskill might be really useful.

The Leitner System

How do you revise for your topics? Jon explains the Leitner system in this video, which promotes strong retrieval and targets the stuff that we are finding t...

www.youtube.com

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Doug Lemov

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2 years

Look what just arrived! (Mine comes a little earlier than yours).

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2 years

"The most effective [science] classrooms I saw minimized the use of screens as much as possible..."

The Benefits of Tech in the Classroom Have Been Oversold | National Review

Your child doesn’t need a fancy game with cartoon characters to be taught math or literacy.

www.nationalreview.com

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6 years

This how-to design and how-to-use guide to Knowledge Organizers, written by Sadie McCleary, is SO helpful.

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5 years

Mostly, the response to poor implementation of an idea is to throw out the idea entirely and choose something else to implement poorly instead.

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2 years

Here's a note from a colleague who is the principal of a school. He & his staff decided to take the challenging but important step of restricting phones this year. They were worried about push back & implementation challenges. 🧵

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Doug Lemov

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8 years

Teachers: It's very important to a democracy to have a well-educated & knowledgeable citizenry. Let's get back to work.

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4 years

Going to be honest. This template from Darryl Williams is probably the most useful thing we've produced about online learning so far.

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10 months

Strong routines for common activities are critical to classroom success-they focus student working memory on learning tasks & build vibrant productive classroom culture. This video of Mallory is a great example of how to install a typical routine.

The First Days of School: Installing a Procedure While Teaching Content - Teach Like a Champion

Jen Rugani is the newest member of Team TLAC. She’s a former Principal at Leadership Prep Canarsie Elementary in Brooklyn and a former TLAC teaching fellow. As a teacher and school leader she felt...

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Doug Lemov

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3 years

Not sure if it's helpful at all but I tried to put together an Annotated Forgetting Curve to explain how it works to educators who might be seeing it for the first time.

An Annotated Forgetting Curve - Teach Like a Champion

Just last month I finally completed and published The Coach’s Guide to Teaching; this month I’m wrapping up the manuscript to the new 3.0 version of Teach Like a Champion. One of its themes of 3.0 is...

teachlikeachampion.org

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6 years

Vocabulary advice: Spend less time guessing at meaning; spend more time applying words in challenging settings after you know what they mean.

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6 years

Best cartoon ever

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4 years

This is arguably the best clip I've seen of Checking for Understanding online. Taught me a lot of other things too. I hope you love it as much as I did.

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5 years

Don't waste students' time guessing at word meanings. Start with a great definition & then spend your time applying words- playfully if possible!

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4 years

This was the top article of the year in @EducationNext and I have to agree; it's a fascinating and important recalibration of how many people think about memory formation. Kudos to @ClareSealy .

The Best Way to Help Children Remember Things? Not “Memorable Experiences”

The difference between “Episodic Memory” and “Semantic Memory,” and what it means for teaching and learning

www.educationnext.org

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1 year

Study finds arithmetic fluency to be the greatest influence on 4th graders' problem solving abilities. [Because fluency frees working memory for more demanding tasks, as you're probably thinking].

The Roles of Arithmetic Fluency and Executive Functioning in Mathematical Problem-Solving | The...

Abstract This study is conducted to further understand the direct and indirect contributions of executive functioning (visuospatial updating, verbal updating, inhibition, shifting) and arithmetic...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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5 years

Just cleaned my desk at work. Am enjoying a brief, euphoric high in which anything seems possible. I give it 24 hours.

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It's possible that you can't teach well until you've built relationships but it's more likely that you can't build relationships until you teach well.

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By the way you can read more about the case against cellphones in schools here and in my book (with Darryl, Denarius and Hilary), Reconnect: Building School Culture for Meaning Purpose and Belonging.

Take Away Their Cellphones

… So we can rewire schools for belonging and achievement

www.educationnext.org

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Doug Lemov

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3 years

Ooh. this is a brilliant graphic that so simply & clearly captures the idea of timing the name in cold call.

Kate Jones

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3 years

In my @TTRadio2021 conversation chat with @Doug_Lemov I will be asking about ‘Cold Calling’ & teachers providing wait time - this is brilliantly simple & helpful by @geotayler 😁👏🏻👍🏻

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Exciting day. Just got my copy of the new book. Looks great. Available starting tomorrow. Thanks to @olicav @DanielCoyle @JohncattUSA @JohnCattEd and all the fantastic coaches who contributed.

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5 years

Thought I’d share some examples of how we're doing vocabulary in the English curriculum we're developing.

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3 years

If you want to understand what makes motivates students, and people, and generally how social environments function, I cannot recommend @PepsMccrea 's book "Motivated Teaching" more highly. It's outstanding, practical and immensely valuable.

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Doug Lemov

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6 years

A cognitive science reading list for coaches:

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1 year

I’m not bragging but I think I just went into settings and fixed something on my phone. (I am over 50 so…kind of a big deal).

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3 years

The magic lies in the correlation, in fact, in being the person who can say 'I believe in you and I care about you and therefore I will not accept anything but your best.'

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Consider this as a prelude to your Cold Call: Ask students (or adult participants) to discuss/reflect on a question and then make a gesture affirming that they have thought about it and have an answer. That could be done in a variety of ways… (1/x)

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6 years

Asking, 'Everybody got that?" is one of the most common verbal habits of the teacher. We should just realize that the answer is almost never correct. More here:

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3 years

Having a drink with the wife. “Here’s to a grown up in the White House.” Clink.

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6 years

This is a very important read.

Why American Students Haven't Gotten Better at Reading in 20 Years

Schools usually focus on teaching comprehension skills instead of general knowledge—even though education researchers know better.

www.theatlantic.com

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Doug Lemov

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11 months

This summary of existing and new research in the field of cognitive load theory is excellent and full of potential applications.

British Journal of Educational Psychology | Wiley Online Library

Background and Aims The long-standing aim of cognitive load theory (CLT) has been to generate instructional design principles that show teachers how to instruct students effectively, based on...

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4 years

"Teaching is not just standing in front of a room and talking at people... It involves directing not just their academic habits but also their social habits." Brilliant, as always, by @tombennett71

Teachers Need to Be Taught To Teach Students to Behave

Many educators lack basic training in classroom management.

www.educationnext.org

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Doug Lemov

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5 years

It's obvious to most educators that young people should have a growth mindset if they want to develop & thrive. It's not always as obvious that the same thing applies to us as educators. That we have to seek growth and challenge and love getting better.

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2 years

The news is bad. Anyone who was paying attention knew it would be. So it's worth noting that the biggest barrier to improving student achievement going forward will be adults who are not focused enough on improving student achievement.

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4 years

Been reading @tombennett71 's Running the Room. You might not expect it to be beautiful but it is. The story of how to build learning culture brought to life through tragic, poignant, hopeful stories of our societal (& his own) successes & failures. It's like pragmatic Tolstoy.

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Doug Lemov

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6 years

We've been working on this for a long time... a set of online modules you can use to practice TLaC techniques on your own or with your colleagues.

Teach Like a Champion

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Announcing.... TLAC Online!

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What happened when John Wallis Academy banned phones: 1. 42% decrease in sanctions for low level disruption 2. 40% decrease in sanctions for serious behaviour incidents 3. 25% decrease in truancy. Well done @damianmcbeath & colleagues.

‘We thought phone rules would spark rebellion – but now pupils talk to each other!’

Even pupils admit life at school has improved after teachers started locking away phones in pouches.

www.kentonline.co.uk

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Doug Lemov

@Doug_Lemov

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I am unapologetically in favor of books. Great ones. Read together in class.

Why Are Books Disappearing from English and Reading Classrooms?

Hint: It has nothing to do with censorship

www.educationnext.org

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Doug Lemov

@Doug_Lemov

9 months

Recently I was at a school where the first thing I noticed was how many of the the adults had their phones out. In meetings. In PD. In the classroom. All day. Everywhere I went. I had this feeling that no one was really paying attention. And i don't mean the kids.

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Doug Lemov

@Doug_Lemov

5 years

This article by @natwexler on the relevance of Cognitive Load Theory in the teaching of writing is outstanding & IMO worth your time... even in summer. :)

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Doug Lemov

@Doug_Lemov

6 years

This is one of the best overall teaching books out there. Impeccably researched and clearly explained concepts of deep importance. And FREE.

Harry Fletcher-Wood

@HFletcherWood

6 years

You can read the whole of Responsive Teaching here, free, until Sunday 22nd,

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