What Do Great Teachers Do? The Techniques that Separate Great Teachers from Average Teachers

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What Do Great Teachers Do?  

The Techniques that Separate Great Teachers

from Average Teachers

A summary of Doug Lemov´s Teach Like a Champion

In this issue of PREAL Policy Brief, Jeffrey Puryear summarizes the main ideas and conclusions of the book “Teach Like a Champion” by Doug Lemov. In his book, Lemov tries to answer questions about which the characteristics of a good teacher are, what must be done so that students have the best teachers, among others, arguing “that great teaching is an art. Like all art, it relies on a set of skills or techniques that, once mastered and applied, transform raw material into highly valued results.”

The book offers 49 classroom techniques to improve the performance of low-income students in their test scores.

Read the article here