Teach Like a Champion 3.0: 63 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College Teach Like a Champion 3.0: 63 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College Paperback Audible Audiobook Kindle Audio CD

Teach Like a Champion 3.0 is packed with real-world techniques to put your students on the path to college. Take a closer look at some of these strategies here:

Write out the key points you want to hear in an ideal student answer when preparing your lessons. This will allow you to evaluate answers more effectively and free your working memory for better listening.

Plan not only what questions you'll ask, but of whom and how you'll ask each question. This will allow you to be more strategic about engaging the widest possible range of students in a variety of forms of thinking.

Prepare for a unit of instruction by organizing key background knowledge about the topic that students should know before delving into study. Put it in one clear, simple place designed for easy encoding in long-term memory.

Build discussions that develop a given topic with depth and insight and that socialize active listening and awareness among students about how to contribute to the conversation in productive ways.

Ensure student participation in the classroom in energetic and productive ways by telling students how you'd like them to answer a given question so they don't have to guess. This is a simple, but powerful tool that's commonly overlooked.

One reason students don't answer questions is because the questions are rhetorical, i.e., the teacher doesn't really expect an answer, or even worse, the questions seem rhetorical. The Phrasing Fundamentals technique looks at how to frame questions to generate maximum student interest.