Episode 029 Practice Perfect with the Teach Like a Champion Crew

This month’s podcast features Doug Lemov, Erica Woolway and Katie Yezzi from Teach Like a Champion. They collaborated on a book, Practice Perfect, that promotes the concept of teachers practicing skills to make them better classroom managers and teachers.

For years Teach Like a Champion conferences were heavy on traditional teaching, but it was missing a big piece: Checking for Understanding. Also, while attendees were exposed to great ideas and ways to teach, they often went back to their schools unable to put into practice what they had learned.

Doug and crew decided to change how the workshops are run and give teachers a chance to practice the new skills and get feedback from their peers and the facilitators on what was effective and things to try next time.

During the podcast, we discuss Doug’s journey to create Teach Like a Champion and the revelation concerning the “get it, do it” gap.

We discuss checking for understanding, the role of forgetting, and how all this can apply to coaches and coach developers.

For more information, please visit Teach Like a Champion.

Doug is on Twitter @doug_lemov.

Katie is @ktyezzi.

Erica is @ericawoolway

Teach Like a Champion is @teachlikeachampion