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