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Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College (K–12) Paperback – 23 April 2010

by Doug Lemov (Author), Norman Atkins (Foreword)
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Teach Like a Champion offers effective teaching techniques to help teachers, especially those in their first few years, become champions in the classroom. These powerful techniques are concrete, specific, and are easy to put into action the very next day. Training activities at the end of each chapter help the reader further their understanding through reflection and application of the ideas to their own practice.

Among the techniques:

  • Technique #1: No Opt Out. How to move students from the blank stare or stubborn shrug to giving the right answer every time.
  • Technique #35: Do It Again. When students fail to successfully complete a basic task from entering the classroom quietly to passing papers around doing it again, doing it right, and doing it perfectly, results in the best consequences.
  • Technique #38: No Warnings. If you′re angry with your students, it usually means you should be angry with yourself. This technique shows how to effectively address misbehaviors in your classroom.


The print version includes a DVD of 25 video clips of teachers demonstrating the techniques in the classroom. E–book customers: please note that details on how to access the content from the DVD may be found in the e–book Table of Contents. Please see the section: "How to Access DVD Contents"

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The book includes a DVD of 25 video clips of teachers demonstrating the techniques in the classroom.

Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College

'Teach Like a Champion' offers effective teaching techniques to help teachers, especially those in their first few years, become champions in the classroom. These powerful techniques are concrete, specific, and are easy to put into action the very next day. Training activities at the end of each chapter help the reader further their understanding through reflection and application of the ideas to their own practice.

Among the techniques:

  • Technique #1: 'No Opt Out.' How to move students from the blank stare or stubborn shrug to giving the right answer every time
  • Technique #35: 'Do It Again.' When students fail to successfully complete a basic task
  • Technique #38: 'No Warnings.' If you're angry with your students, it usually means you should be angry with yourself. This technique shows how to effectively address misbehaviors in your classroom

Top Five Things Every Teacher Needs to Know (or Do) to Be Successful

Amazon-exclusive content from author Doug Lemov:

1. Simplicity is underrated. A simple idea well-implemented is an incredibly powerful thing.

2. You know your classroom best. Always keep in mind that what’s good is what works in your classroom.

3. Excellent teaching is hard work. Excellent teachers continually strive to learn and to master their craft. No matter how good a teacher is it’s always possible to be better.

4. Every teacher must be a reading teacher. Reading is the skill our students need.

5. Teaching is the most important job in the world. And it’s also the most difficult.

Amazon Exclusive: Q&A with Author Doug Lemov

Uncommon Schools is a group of schools that serve low-income populations in urban centers in New York and New Jersey. Across our 16 schools 98 percent of our students scored proficient in math and just below 90 percent in English. This means that our schools usually outperform more privileged suburban districts.

We’ve been using the 49 techniques in my book for 5 years, with our teachers constantly refining and adding to them. Our experience has proven not only that that these techniques work and they can work in every school and in every classroom but that great teachers make them better and more sophisticated over time. And best of all the teachers who practice using them find themselves in control of a happy, rigorous classroom that reflects the motivations that brought them to teaching in the first place. Successful teachers are happy teachers.

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"If school districts are going to demand so much of teachers, then the least superintendents and schools of education can provide is basic tools. There is more power in effective training than there could ever be in threats." ( Boston Globe, March 23, 2010)

′Lemov talks of teachers as "artisans" using a range of techniques to take learning to another level.′ (Times Educational Supplement, 26th May). ′Teachers who use this book will not be disappointed– it will assist them to become masters of their craft . (The Business of Teaching, November 2011).

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"Doug Lemov knows that teachers can create powerful learning environments that will help all students make dramatic progress. With Teach Like A Champion, teachers across the country will be better prepared to wake up on Monday morning and help their students climb the mountain to college. This book provides more evidence that highly effective teaching is learnable that many more teachers can draw from the tactics of their most successful colleagues in order to realize educational equity."
WENDY KOPP, chief executive officer and founder of Teach For America

"Every teacher should own at least two copies of Doug Lemov′s Teach Like a Champion. One for home and one for school, so that they are never far from the roadmap to excellence that lies within. Lemov pulls back the curtain to reveal that the apparent wizardry of the most successful teachers is really a collection of clearly explainable and learnable techniques. This will certainly be one of the most influential and helpful books that any teacher ever owns."
DAVID LEVIN, co–founder of KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program)

"Doug Lemov′s Teach Like a Champion is a breakthrough book that is both visionary and comprehensive. If you are a teacher who wants to increase the academic success of your students, you should read this book. If you are an administrator with the same goal, you must get this book into the hands of your teachers!"
LEE CANTER, author of Assertive Discipline

"Doug Lemov has captured in one place the specific, practical techniques used by the best teachers in some of our country′s best urban schools. Any teacher, principal, or policymaker who is interested in what it takes on a classroom level to close the achievement gap should read this book."
DACIA TOLL, co–chief executive officer of Achievement First

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Jossey Bass (23 April 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0470550473
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0470550472
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.91 x 1.78 x 23.62 cm
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Teachers do the most important work in society (IMO). They do it with little fanfare--often in the face of immense challenge. And though many of them do it with incredible skill they rarely get studied.

That's what I try to do: watch great teachers and describe what they do that makes them a little different.

Teach Like a Champion--which is now completely revised in a much improved version called Teach Like Champion 2.0 that I recommend over the original version--is my most popular book. It's got twelve chapters about every facet of teaching. And be sure to also check out the companion workbook, the Teach Like a Champion Field Guide 2.0, which is chockful of hands-on activities and includes brand new video content.

Practice Perfect, written with my colleagues Erica Woolway and Katie Yezzi, is a meditation on preparing and developing teachers--and others--through practice. Teaching is a performance profession. You do it live. That observation is what got us started in writing the book.

My newest book is Reading Reconsidered--a look at the toughest and most critical part of teaching: literacy. It's written with Erica Woolway and Colleen Driggs and I'm so happy to have had the chance ot work with co-authors with such knowledge and insight.

I should note that I see all of my books as being about tools, not systems. Teaching is a problem-solving endeavor. You use tools, adapt them to the setting and context of your classroom and your personal style. You like some and not others. I believe most of all in the problem solving skills of teachers and offer them tools for that, knowing they will find the best way to apply,adapt, even ignore some of the ideas in my books.

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Mrs M Butler
5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended to all my staff
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The book and strategies are very good and I have recommended that all my teaching staff purchase it. Good read.
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Trish Hodgson
5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional professional development!
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Fabulous resource and useful tool for conducting PD with staff at all levels of career progression. Great resource highly recommend
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5.0 out of 5 stars Teach like a champion
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A very good read. Useful for understanding the classroom.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Be a great teacher. Add it to the curriculum of every ...
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Apply these lessons. Be a great teacher.
Add it to the curriculum of every University.
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This book arrived in excellent condition, and was well packaged. This is going to be a read for the coming weeks so I can't evaluate the book itself, aside from I would have bought it having flipped through it in person.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Ideas on what to DO.
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I first learned about Lemov's book after reading a NY Times article about the author, bought the book when it first came out last spring, and have spent the last few months implementing the ideas. I am excited about the changes these techniques brought to my classroom! If you are a teacher, finish reading my review, then click that add to cart button. This is the resource you have been looking for if you want practical and SPECIFIC things to actually do in your class. If your college ed classes were like mine, they were all about theory and never showed you things that you should DO. This book helps solve that.

Unlike most technique books, Teach Like a Champion (yes, yes, terrible title) is not some regimented "system" that expects you to take it whole or not at all. Rather, it is essentially a list of techniques that highly successful teachers often use. The tools come from KIPP and other charter schools that take the "no-nonsense" approach. I thought I wasn't that type of teacher. I thought I was about encouraging self-learning and academic exploration. But after seeing the academic success of his ideas, and seeing how they RESULT in the type of student I had hoped mine were (but weren't yet), I'm pragmatic enough to change course.

Lemov breaks the techniques down into basic categories like lesson planning, behavior management, etc. Each technique is given a pithy name, which I found to be surprisingly useful. By naming the techniques the way he did, he makes them more easily implemented. In the heat of the moment, when I only have half a second to think, the names allow me to intentionally use them. It's a lot easier to say to yourself "okay, I'm going to positive frame" than it is to think "okay, I'm going to describe what it is that I want to see, instead of describing what I currently am seeing." They're mnumonics.

After naming each technique, Lemov explains his theory behind it and provides examples, scripts, etc. Some of the ideas are complex. It is impossible to actually absorb the book all at once, especially since so many of the techniques take practice to do well. But you can reflect on the things you most want to try and there is enough information to get you started. I began with Cold-Calling (calling on students that I want to hear from, not by who raised their hand). After I was practiced enough, I could tack on another tool. And after that another. And so on.

Nobody uses all of the techniques. Maybe the idea won't fit the student's age group, or the teacher's personality, or the school's culture. Lemov encourages flexibility instead. And I like his pragmatism; if it works great! If not, try something else. I teach high school, so some ideas (like an entry song) won't fly. But others will. I thought enforcing SLANT (sit-up, listen, ask questions, nod, track speaker) wouldn't work, but my students had strong buy-in and in-class discussions noticeably improved. Most importantly, every week I can tell my craft is improving.
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