Teach like a champion 3.0: 63 techniques that put students on the path to college - Lemov Doug 2021

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Academic ethos

1. 1. Tone and praise are also age-related variables. This means that if you teach kindergarten, make a fuss over every tiny moment. If you teach tenth grade, go a bit easy.

2. 2. This is one of a hundred reasons why behavioral culture matters. It is not enough to eliminate negative behaviors. We have to install and instill learning-positive behaviors among students so the classroom culture supports changes in behavior that benefit young people. Please remember this moment when you read Chapters Ten through Twelve.

3. 3. I've seen several critiques of the idea of reinforcing standard grammar and syntax in school. Several found my argument oppressive or offensive. For what it's worth, they were all written in impeccable Standard English.

4. 4. Consider for a moment recent articles about the increasing importance of college essays in an era of growing SAT optionality. Ask yourself whether you would consider it an advantage or a disadvantage for your own child's college essay to be written without mastery of Standard English.

5. 5. Other People's Children (New Press, 1995), pp. 39—40.

6. 6. It's also possible that it is an inevitability—are there languages in the world where there is not a standard form that must be learned, where “rules,” often passed down and therefore feeling archaic to some, do not need to be followed? If there are, they are rarely written languages. Rules, after all, are the purpose of grammar.

7. 7. Often for legitimate reasons. One benefit of the slowing influence on linguistic change via standardized grammar is that it sustains our access to older texts and ideas. Spelling was far less standardized before the publication of Johnson's first dictionary in 1755. Reading texts written before that where spelling is unpredictable is extremely challenging.

8. 8. https://citizen.education/2019/08/09/schools-dont-need-to-teach-our-students-to-act-white-but-they-should-prepare-them-for-mainstream-america/.

9. 9. Am I just talking about adjustments in discourse for certain Black and Brown kids? I am not. To varying degrees, learning to use the standard form is an issue across the majority of young people in society. Part of standardization is not about cultural but about generational differences. Young people speak like young people and their parents want schools to ensure that they can speak in a way that is more like how the adults talk. Any student's language habits, in other words, are informed by a combination of influences and factors and it may be a false judgment to assume that a teenager's way of speaking is a representation of his or her culture. For all you know it makes their parents crazy. Most of us went through a process as teenagers of learning to speak in a way that was accessible to the broadest swath of society.

10. 10. This then is something they can choose not to do if they wish; we are empowering choice.