{"id":143246,"date":"2020-02-25T11:27:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T17:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/texas\/?p=143246"},"modified":"2020-02-28T16:02:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T22:02:47","slug":"teach-like-champion-texas-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/texas\/teacher-resources\/teaching-in-texas-blog\/teach-like-champion-texas-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Teach Like A Champion!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas is providing a great new free resource for Texas Teachers so that they can learn and practice some \u2018Teach Like a Champion\u2019 techniques online at the new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/texastlaconline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas TLAC website<\/a>! These new free teaching assets will help educators become incredibly more effective in the classroom. \u2018Teach Like a Champion\u2019 was developed by Doug Lemov to help first year teachers truly reach their students. The national \u2018Teach Like a Champion\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/teachlikeachampion.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>\u00a0has a ton of helpful information as well!<\/p>\n<p>What is \u2018Teach Like a Champion\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>From their website \u2013<\/p>\n<h4>62 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College<\/h4>\n<p>Ever since the emergence of\u00a0<em>Teach Like a Champion,<\/em>\u00a0teachers across the globe have practiced, refined, and adapted Doug Lemov\u2019s simple, yet powerful teaching techniques to improve their teaching practice and help their students become college and career ready.\u00a0<em>Teach Like a Champion 2.0,<\/em>\u00a0inspired by these champion teachers, is much more than a new edition. The techniques are still practical, engaging, and easy to implement, but include more concrete guidance, thoughts on rigor, and useful tools. The revised book also includes seventy-five new video clips of real teachers modeling the techniques in the classroom. Once the reader learns the ins and outs of the techniques, and after watching the accompanying clips, author Doug encourages educators to make these techniques their own\u2013and to participate in the champion community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What does the TEA TLAC do for you? (in case you haven\u2019t guessed \u2013 TLAC is an abbreviation for Teach Like a Champion) \u2013<\/p>\n<p>There are three main sections that Texas teachers can access to improve their teaching practice \u2013<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Behavior and Culture<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018What To Do\u2019 directions communicate what students SHOULD be doing, not what they SHOULDN\u2019T be doing. Learn more about this technique with the training that follows.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Radar\u2019 is your ability to see what happens in your classroom. Check out the training below to learn more about \u2018Radar\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>The goal of \u2018Least Invasive Intervention\u2019 is to make your redirection nearly invisible so that you can keep teaching and students can keep learning. Explore the training below to learn about several different kinds of \u2018Least Invasive Interventions\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Strong Voice\u2019 is a technique for adjusting your speech and body language to ensure students listen carefully to what you say. Learn more about \u2018Strong Voice\u2019 in the training that follows.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Planning for Achievement<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Double Planning\u2019 is the process of planning what both you and your students will do at each point in the lesson. Engage with the training below to learn more.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Plan for Error\u2019 is the process of anticipating student misunderstandings and determining how you will respond to them in the moment. Check out the training below to learn more about this technique<\/li>\n<li>When you use \u2018Art of the Sentence\u2019, you ask students to synthesize a conclusion, describe an insight, or summarize a complex idea in a single, well-crafted sentence. Check out the following training to learn how to apply this technique in your classroom.<\/li>\n<li>An \u2018Exit Ticket\u2019 is a short, formative assessment that you can use to evaluate your students\u2019 success with the lesson objective. Check out the training below to learn how to design \u2018Exit Tickets\u2019 effectively and how to analyze and act on the data you collect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>Engaging Academics<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>When you \u2018Cold Call\u2019 students, you call on them regardless of whether they have raised their hands or not. Explore the training below to learn more about \u2018Cold Call\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Show Call\u2019 is a variation on \u2018Cold Call\u2019. When you \u2018Show Call\u2019, you use student work to prompt further learning, analysis, and revision. Explore the training below to learn more about this technique.<\/li>\n<li>When you \u2018Stretch It\u2019, you respond to students\u2019 correct answers with more challenging questions. Check out the training that follows to learn more about this technique.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/texastlaconline.org\/users\/sign_up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to sign up for a new Texas TLAC account.\u00a0<strong>NOTE: To verify your eligibility, you must sign up with an email from a recognized education institution in Texas.<\/strong>\u00a0Registrations from personal emails such as gmail.com, yahoo.com or outlook.com will not be accepted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas is providing a great new free resource for Texas Teachers so that they can learn and practice some \u2018Teach Like a Champion\u2019 techniques online at the new\u00a0Texas TLAC website! &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":143254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[2183,2184,2191,1170,1603,2181],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"\/media-tx\/Capture-2.jpg","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-05-05 02:44:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143246"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143720,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143246\/revisions\/143720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}