Teach Like a Champion 2.0: 62 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College 2nd ed. Edition

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A seminal text. While perhaps best known by for its behavior management strategies, I’ve learned in my 10+ years as a public school educator that its greatest value comes with its treatment of higher level topics. To name a few: increasing “thinking ratio,” *effectively* checking for student understanding (at each stage of the lesson - not just as the end!), creating a positive “culture of error,” “excavating” error (to help students learn from common misconceptions), teaching the “art of the sentence,” and the list goes on. As a teacher and school leader, I’ve seen countless teachers rely upon the concepts and shared language this text provides on their way to becoming dynamic, engaging, highly- effective teachers. Thanks goodness for this book.P.S. For white people (like myself) who teach majority people of color, I believe it’s important to pair TLAC - and others that are similar - with texts that offer invaluable cultural context. Books like “How to Be an Antiracist” (Kendi), “White Fragility” (Denagelo), and “For White Folks...” (Emdin). No one book should ever be considered the end-all-be-all, especially for white folks who need to be extra thoughtful about the impact of their words and actions on their students.

There are many good techniques in this book. Not every technique is for everyone, but the purpose and success of books such as these are their ability to offer you many ways to succeed. Everyone teaches differently, but we do need to meet in the middle. This book explores those options while remaining aware and open minded.

This expensive kindle edition does not include the videos. There is a way to get access, but you have to jump through a lot of hoops and enter a line from the book on a special website that you have to type in then get a pin and then create a login and the login in and the your login won't work.It's probably great content, but I would assume in 2015, you would include the videos not make someone jump through hoops likes its 1995. I have seen kindle books at one third the cost with a ton of embedded video that work great, This kindle book feels like it was created by an ageing school board committee in 1995, not a modern, state of the art educator.

Lemov's book can be truly transformational for teachers and schools. We use his first volume (TLAC 1.0) extensively in my public school as part of our professional development, and, although many of his techniques aren't earthshattering to veteran educators, his book codifies and names the technique in a way that makes it really easy for a school to develop shorthand around them. It also lays out the reasoning behind many of the things good teachers do already. I cannot imagine any school, coach, or professional developer who isn't using TLAC--it will make your job easier, I promise.This second volume is definitely worth a purchase, even if you already have the first TLAC. Lemov is a workaholic, as evidenced by his frequent blog updates, and he has an insatiable curiosity to figure out what works in education. This book reflects both qualities, as he incorporates extensive revision and feedback from teachers to his original techniques as well as adds new ones. Although in general, I believe the charter school movement misguided and extremely problematic for the state of public education in our country, there is no denying that much innovation has come from some of the good charter networks. TLAC is a great example of this!

Enjoying this book

If you've had to suffer through the drivel presented in most education books - forced by an administrator or edumacation professor to read Wong's "The First Days of School" and similar content-free pablum, try Doug Lemov's book. It's packed with solution-driven examples gleaned from observing thousands of teachers and picking the most effective classroom strategies. The adult-level writing is truly refreshing. This is a book not just for the first week or first year, but one to be referred to throughout a career.

I read Teach Like A Champion and thought wow, inspiring and that there could not be another book that is as inspiring as this. Then I read Teach Like A Champion 2.0 and was literally blown away. The techniques are amazing. They can be used in a variety of classrooms and can be carried out by any kind of teacher (tenured and/or nontenured) The explanations are explicit and understandable. The DVD provides an accurate picture of what the technique looks like when successfully implemented in the classroom. The chapters are informative, inspiring and well written. The book focuses on the year throughout, not just the beginning or the end of the year! I would recommend this book to any of my colleagues! A great book to cetner a professional development around and a must have for your own personal professional collection!