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

Notes
Building ratio through discussion

1. 1. Most people, you may have noticed, are confident that this applies to people other than themselves.

2. 2. We should realize another risk: students often recognize that expressing ardent opinions—even ones they may not truly hold—shows interest and is a route to a higher grade. Colby may well know that punching up his passion about the Kansas Nebraska Act is a great way to enhance his grade.

3. 3. To be clear, there are times when we encourage talking to allow students to process or to increase Participation Ratio. This is great, but is different from discussion, when we must support students in remembering and building their skills for the listening portion of the process.

4. 4. There are several vignettes about this in The Hidden Lives of Learners.

5. 5. There are lots of different ways to designate the two halves of each pair—“window” and “door” or “wall” (designating which part of the classroom they are closer to) often works.

6. 6. Another realization about Turn and Talks that comes from online teaching is that a lot of time gets wasted in the awkward social dance of starting the conversation. Who will go first? What do you say to begin? Shaping the routine early in the year—for example, by saying “When you get to your breakout room, simply greet your partner and say ’What did you think?’ ”—helped a lot of teachers with this. Perhaps there's a classroom equivalent.

7. 7. Quoted in Daniel Coyle, The Culture Code.