Teach Like a Champion Quotes

“When you want them to follow your directions, stand still. If you're walking around passing out papers, it looks like the directions are no more important than all of the other things you're doing. Show that your directions matter. Stand still.”
― Doug Lemov, Teach Like a Champion 2.0: 62 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College

“there are teachers who without much fanfare take the students who others say “can't”—can't read great literature, can't do algebra or calculus, can't and don't want to learn—and turn them into scholars who can.”
― Doug Lemov, Teach Like a Champion 2.0: 62 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College

“How All Teachers Can (and Must) Be Reading Teachers”
― Doug Lemov, Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques That Put Students on the Path to College

“...we spend a lot of time defining behavior by the negative "that was inappropriate." These commands are vague and inefficient...Telling students what to do in a way that is specific, concrete, sequential and observable refocuses us on teaching.”
― Doug Lemov, Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College

“One of the problems with teaching is that there's a temptation to evaluate what we do in the classroom based on how clever it aligns with a larger philosophy , or even how gratifying it is to use not necessarily how effective it is...”
― Doug Lemov, Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College

“From the moment students arrived, the teachers worked to shape their perception of what it meant to make a mistake, pushing them to think of “wrong” as a first, positive, and often critical step toward getting it”
― Doug Lemov, Teach Like a Champion 2.0: 62 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College

“In writing this book, I want to emphasize that the art is in the discretionary application of the techniques.”
― Doug Lemov, Teach Like a Champion 2.0: 62 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College

“Culture of Error has four key parts: expecting error, withholding the answer, managing your tell, and praising”
― Doug Lemov, Teach Like a Champion 2.0: 62 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College

“pushing them to think of “wrong” as a first, positive, and often critical step toward getting it”
― Doug Lemov, Teach Like a Champion 2.0: 62 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College

“Kids too often change from the outside in. They see themselves being enthusiastic and start to feel enthusiastic. They see themselves lost in their work and start to think they are productive, contributing members of society and begin to believe and act accordingly more frequently.”
― Doug Lemov, Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College

“Teach students how to do things right, don't just establish consequences for doing them wrong.”
― Doug Lemov, Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College

“using the content you teach to take all kids, not just inner-city kids, outside their own narrow band of experience is critical. This means challenging them with ideas outside their experience. Pandering to kids by substituting lyrics for lyric poetry or referring to a corpus of movies for examples of literary devices instead of a corpus of novels is easy in the short run but insufficient in the long run.”
― Doug Lemov, Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College