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    This document summarizes key techniques from the book "Teach Like a Champion" by Doug Lemov. It begins by explaining Lemov observed great teachers to identify 49 techniques common among them. Chapter 4 focuses on engaging students with techniques like Cold Call, Pepper, Everybody Writes, and Vegas. Cold Call ensures every student prepares an answer by calling on them randomly with "Question. Pause. Name.". Pepper reviews foundational skills quickly in a game-like format. Everybody Writes benefits include allowing the teacher to review responses and steer discussion. Vegas sparks energy with brief musical or game-like activities if implemented carefully. The document models these techniques and encourages reflection on incorporating them.

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    This document summarizes key techniques from the book "Teach Like a Champion" by Doug Lemov. It begins by explaining Lemov observed great teachers to identify 49 techniques common among them. Chapter 4 focuses on engaging students with techniques like Cold Call, Pepper, Everybody Writes, and Vegas. Cold Call ensures every student prepares an answer by calling on them randomly with "Question. Pause. Name.". Pepper reviews foundational skills quickly in a game-like format. Everybody Writes benefits include allowing the teacher to review responses and steer discussion. Vegas sparks energy with brief musical or game-like activities if implemented carefully. The document models these techniques and encourages reflection on incorporating them.

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    This document summarizes key techniques from the book "Teach Like a Champion" by Doug Lemov. It begins by explaining Lemov observed great teachers to identify 49 techniques common among them. Chapter 4 focuses on engaging students with techniques like Cold Call, Pepper, Everybody Writes, and Vegas. Cold Call ensures every student prepares an answer by calling on them randomly with "Question. Pause. Name.". Pepper reviews foundational skills quickly in a game-like format. Everybody Writes benefits include allowing the teacher to review responses and steer discussion. Vegas sparks energy with brief musical or game-like activities if implemented carefully. The document models these techniques and encourages reflection on incorporating them.

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    Engagement Strategies From Teach Like A Champion

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    This document summarizes key techniques from the book "Teach Like a Champion" by Doug Lemov. It begins by explaining Lemov observed great teachers to identify 49 techniques common among them. Chapter 4 focuses on engaging students with techniques like Cold Call, Pepper, Everybody Writes, and Vegas. Cold Call ensures every student prepares an answer by calling on them randomly with "Question. Pause. Name.". Pepper reviews foundational skills quickly in a game-like format. Everybody Writes benefits include allowing the teacher to review responses and steer discussion. Vegas sparks energy with brief musical or game-like activities if implemented carefully. The document models these techniques and encourages reflection on incorporating them.

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    The key takeaways are techniques for engaging students in lessons such as cold calling, pepper, everybody writes, and vegas.

    The spirit of "Teach Like a Champion" is to use techniques proven to close the achievement gap and engage students in learning.

    Doug Lemov wrote this book to provide teachers with techniques from classrooms of great teachers that have been shown to close the achievement gap.

    Teach Like a Champion

    Chapter 4: Engaging Your Students in Your Lessons

    David Duez
    Matt Webb
    What is the spirit of 
    "Teach Like a Champion?"
    Embedded video. 30 seconds.
    “__________ like a Champion Today.”
    – from Notre Dame.

    Link to Youtube version.


    “Great teaching is an art.”
    Why did Doug Lemov write this book?
    Lemov is the managing director of Uncommon Schools.
    He taught English and history at the university, high school and middle school
    levels.

    It is a resource for teachers filled with techniques that


    have proven to close the achievement gap.

    Lemov went into classrooms and video taped great


    teachers and what they do.  

    He came up with 49 techniques that "Champion"


    teachers shared in common.

    There is also a DVD that is included with the book to


    show these techniques in action.  
    Video: Doug Lemov – Why I wrote this book. Youtube link to the video.
    3 Quick and Essential Ideas
    from T.L.A. Champion

    What does it take to be a Champion?

    These ideas are not in Chapter 4 - our focus today -


    but they are important.
    First Idea: Where to Start?

    Technique #6. 
    Begin with the End

    This statement is flawed:


    "What am ‘I’ going to do tomorrow?"

    Flaw - emphasis on activity first & not objective

    Emphasis should be on "What will my students understand today?  


    (the result of this question is measurable)

    Good practice from TLAC:


    (Technique #8 is POST IT)
    Second Essential Idea: 
    Lesson Planning
    Technique #10. 
    Double Plan

    Most lesson planning focuses on


    what you (the teacher) will be
    doing.

    Too often teachers forget to plan


    for what the students will be
    doing each step of the way.

    It helps you see the lesson


    through the student's eyes and
    keeps them proactively involved.
    Third Essential Idea: Student Expectations

    Technique #32. 
    SLANT  S-L-A-N-T

    The mnemonic SLANT


    reminds students to:

    S = Sit up straight
    L = Lean forward
    A = Activate your thinking
    N = Note key information
    T = Track the speaker
    Are any of these guys slanting?
    Chapter 4: Engaging Students in Your Lessons

    We will look at these


    specific techniques...

    # 22. Cold Call

    # 24. Pepper

    # 26. Everybody Writes

    # 27. Vegas
    Technique #22.
     Cold Call
    Use this sequence:
    "Question. Pause. Name."  

    Ensures that every student hears the question and begins


    preparing an answer during the pause that you provided.

    Cold Calling can be fun for students.  

    Cold Calling is predictable... systematic... positive... 


    & scaffolded.

    (Also see Techniques: Right is Right and No Opt Out)


    Video from the DVD.
    Cold Call – Clip #8 – Ms. Driggs

    No youtube link
    Video from the DVD
    Cold Call – Clip #9 – Ms. Verrilli
    No Youtube link
    Video from the DVD.
    Clip #10 – Cold Call & Every Minute Counts
    – Ms. Riffle
    No Youtube link.
    “How can I adapt my decisions about
    which students I call on to help all my
    students pay better attention?”

    To make engaged participation


    the expectation, call on students
    regardless of whether they have
    raised their hands. 
    Technique #24. Pepper
    • Fast-paced, unpredictable,  &
    group-oriented  Not that kind of pepper. Hang
    on, lunch is coming up soon! 
    • Review familiar info and
    fundamental skills
    • Great warm-up activity
    • Very much like a game

    The idea of pepper comes


    from baseball.  "Pepper"
    Martin pictured to the right.
    Pepper Clips # 7 Jesse Rector
    Video from the DVD.
    Clip #7 – Cold Call/Pepper - Mr. Rector
    Youtube Link for the video.
    A Game of AHS Pepper
    Pepper Questions:
    1. What year did Atascocita High open it's doors?
    2. What high school split to form AHS in 2006?
    3. How many small learning communities did
    AHS start with in 2006-2007?
    4. What is the name of the hall that connects
    each of the communities at AHS?
    5. What year did AHS graduate its first group of
    seniors?
    6. How many middle schools feed into AHS?
    7. What does L.G.I. stand for?
    8. What does P.L.C. stand for?
    9. What does A.F.L. stand for?
    Technique # 26
    Everybody Writes
    6 Benefits to Everybody Writes (pages 140-141):
    1.  The teacher can review their responses before beginning
    discussion.
    2. It allows the teacher to cold call in a more simple and natural
    way. Everyone should be ready with an answer.
    3. It allows every student the chance to participate and be a part of
    the conversation.
    4. Processing thoughts in writing refines them. This gives students
    an opportunity to improve their writing skills and think in a more
    complex way.
    5. It gives the teacher a chance to set a higher standard and also
    steer the direction of the discussion in a more fruitful way.
    6. Students remember twice as much of what they are learning if
    they write it down.
    Video from the DVD.
    Clip #12 - Everybody Writes – Mr. Worrell
    No Youtube link.
    Quick write - Everybody Writes Example

    Do a quick write on "The Man I Killed.“

    “Why would someone write a story


    about not being able to talk about what
    he did, and in so doing, talk about it?
    Why would he talk about not being able
    to talk about it?”
    Quick write - Everybody Writes Example
    Do a quick write of our own.
    Which of the techniques covered
    today do you…
    • Already do in class?
    • Would like to improve this year?
    • Need to know more about?
    A quick write is just you writing whatever comes to
    mind. It is an opportunity to reflect upon your learning.

    We will give you 3 minutes to write.


    Technique #27
    Vegas
    Vegas is the “sparkle.”
    A moment of observing ‘production value.’
    Music, lights, rhythm, dancing.

    Example comes to mind,


    Cindy Welch’s “Parts of a Cell” sung to “Wheels
    on the Bus.”

    It could be a class room review game of Jeopardy,


    Hollywood Squares, or Who Wants to be a
    Millionaire.

    WARNING: Vegas moments have to be developed and implemented with


    care. Otherwise they can take students off task and do as much harm as
    good.
    Other Examples of Vegas:
      Questions? Comments?  Feedback?
    1. On Facebook: Atascocita High School Teacher Support Group

    2. This presentation will be on a


    teacher’s link on our website.

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