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Doug shares his notes and lessons on teaching and learning (mostly).
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How Jaime Johnson’s Shared Reading Leads to Vibrant Discussion (opens the original)
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One of the themes of The Teach Like a Champion Guide to the Science of Reading and a key a design principle of the Reading Reconsidered curriculum is the idea of re-centering the book.Not only should students read great books cover to cover, they should read them together, in class, often aloud.Among other things we can use shared reading to rebuild attentional habits so that students experience 8 or 10 or 12 minutes of uninterrupted and undistracted text several times a day.Even better if we ca
“Norm Amplification,” psychological safety and academic rigor (opens the original)
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The subtitle of this post—putting more “Pep” in your classroom—is an allusion to the wise man Peps Mccrea whose book Motivated Teaching is one every educator should read. In it he notes that the biggest single influence on behavior and motivation is the individual’s perception of the group norm. Much of the work of running a strong classroom is magnifying positive norms.The idea that the individual’s actions are shaped by his or her perception of what the group approves of is an observation we c
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