Ben Katcher

Knowledge First. My students achieve extraordinary results. Former Teach Like A Champion Fellow. National Board Certified Teacher. I teach AP US History.

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@Doug_Lemov @karenvaites @chronicle Each year, we read an excerpt about the murder of Emmet Till from Robert Caro's book "Master of the Senate". It is extraordinarily powerful & reading it together is an example of showing (rather than telling) students the indispensability of sustained reading. I'd like to do more

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@Doug_Lemov What a great moment!

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@labattical2 @Doug_Lemov That makes sense. I haven't experienced that, personally.

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@Doug_Lemov Asking teachers to develop high-quality curriculum and meet the needs of 130+ students simultaneously is not a formula for teacher retention or student achievement.

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@Doug_Lemov For me, it's lack of high-quality curriculum leading to burnout. So I'd actually like *less* "autonomy" because I think it would lead to more self-efficacy and reduce my workload. "High-quality" is doing a lot of work in that last sentence. Impossible to find, unfortunately.

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My latest newsletter on how to build students' background knowledge so they can unlock complex text and think historically. https://t.co/5mctQfDFsZ

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@adamboxer1 This makes a lot of sense. I’m going to apply these ideas. Thank you.

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@Beanie0597 @P_A_Kirschner Neither should high schools.

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@MrDBGorham @MrZachG I want to use them more. Where should I go to read about/see video of teachers using them well?

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@MrZachG It is so patently obvious that phones should be banned in class.

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@Doug_Lemov @EconTalker Loved this! Great to hear many ideas I am familiar with again and some new ones as well. I especially appreciated the discussion about vocabulary.

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@MrZachG I am really interested in the idea of mixing inputs and outputs and findings ways to use MWB. Where would I go to see more examples of how to do this well?

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@adamboxer1 @greg_ashman I think it depends how you define “relationship”

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@Doug_Lemov After 2 years of teaching AP classes, I’ll be teaching AP and on-level this year. Thinking about how to modify methods (knowledge organizers, retrieval practice, etc.) for students with less background knowledge (making a generalization there)

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@ReadSimplified Congratulations!

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@ClassroomD4 Love this! Just altered my template to include your explanations. Thank you!

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Proud to report my students crushed their AP US History exams again! My results are much, much better than other teachers at my school. Why? The knowledge-building cycle. Read more: https://t.co/Y0n02Vpfbw

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@KnowledgeMatrs @Doug_Lemov @natwexler @dylanwiliam @DTWillingham @MrZachG @PatriceBain1 @CurriculumMatrs @serenavwhite @GregariousMrO Love this. I wish my students read more whole books in English class. In history class, I try to find short nonfiction narrative stories that serve a similar purpose. For example, devoting a class period to reading Robert Caro's description of the lynching of Emmet Till.

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@learnwithmrlee @msrebeccabirch Yes, the students need to experience the process and the success. Show them, don't tell them.