1. 10 Micro-Techniques Used by Effective Teachers
Potent Pedagogy
10 Micro-Techniques Used by Effective Teachers
Why is this an IPA workshop?
and/or
What are you doing in a teacher workshop?
Mark Greenberg, IPA Member; Consultant, Potent Pedagogy
Dept. Chair/Teacher (28); Assistant Prin. (10); District Teacher Mentor (4)
O’Fallon HS, O’Fallon IL (33) Valley Park HS, Valley Park, MO (9)

2. 10 Micro-Techniques Used by Effective Teachers
Principal as “Instructional Leader”?
(Jason Leahy, IPA Ex. Dir., hates that term)
What’s your most important role in
your school?
What’s the role of pedagogy/instruction
at your school?
10 Micro-Techniques Used by Effective Teachers
Work-along #1
Role of Pedagogy at Your School:
(Channeling ASCD’s Peter DeWitt here)
Every meeting, every time
Teacher instituted/led/often co-planned
Articles/Books/Current events as springboards/excuses to discuss instruction
Flipped faculty meetings to create time for meaningful instructional discourse

3. Teach Like a Champion (2010)
---12 yrs. studying highest performing teachers in schools w/80% poverty where state scores comparable to best schools.
---Almost 100% of these teachers’ kids scored proficient on state tests.

5. Doug Lemov, managing director of Uncommon Schools (www.uncommonschools.org)
Starts and manages schools in urban areas across the Northeast
Currently 28 schools in five cities
Author of best-selling book, Teach Like a Champion (2010)

6. 5. “We’re unapologetic about our focus on rigor and structure.”
All 28 Uncommon Schools share five guiding principles: ”All students deserve ____ ”We go the distance to____ ”We hold ourselves to____ ”We believe in data to____ ???
Work-along #2
5. “We’re unapologetic about our
focus on rigor and structure.”

7. What makes good teaching is what works.
Almost obsessively specific (LTMBD)
Technique names catchy & a little gimmicky b/a descriptive. Enable shared vocab to discuss.
Many techniques captured in short video clips in the books’ accompanying DVDs.
BOOK CONTENT
CHARACTERISTICS

8. Techniques often synergize – PB & J
Many not “new”;
many technique names
now routinely coached
instructional practices
(ala Marzano, Dearborn, Antonetti & Garver)
Make obvious assumptions about Teacher (CK/LP)

9. 49 Techniques Divided into SIX DIVISIONS
Teach Like a Champion
49 Techniques Divided into SIX DIVISIONS
1 – Setting High Academic Expectations
2 – Planning That Assures Academic Achievement
3 – Structuring and Delivering Your Lessons
4 – Engaging Students in Your Lessons
5 – Creating a Strong Classroom Culture
6 – Setting/Maintaining High Behavioral Expectations

10. How to select 10 out of 49 . . . Method to the madness?
Ok, let’s go---

11. All Uncommon School rooms teach and use S.L.A.N.T.
Technique #1 – S.L.A.N.T.
(bk clip #16-- SLANT + 100%, Mr. Zimmerle)
All Uncommon School rooms teach and use S.L.A.N.T.

12. Technique #1 S.L.A.N.T. SLANT present & illustrated in most clips
(bk clip #16-- SLANT + 100%, Mr. Zimmerle)
SLANT present & illustrated in most clips
Begs some questions:
--Useful in all c/rs?
--Necessary in all c/rs?
--Too juvenile for HS?
--Too controlling?
--Too stifling?
Work-along
#3-#4

13. Technique #2 – Cold Call (book clip #8, #9)

14. Technique #2 – Cold Call (book clip #8, #9)
Cold Call = act of calling on students to answer questions at random, not based on who volunteers to participate.
Benefit: Checks for understanding 
Benefit: Raises number of different participants
Benefit: ??? 
Cold Call is predictable systematic positive.  scaffolded.
Related-- Anyone heard Grace
Dearborn’s “Answer or Echo”?
Work-along #5
Technique #2 – Cold Call (book clip #8, #9)

15. Technique #3 – No Opt Out (book clip #1, Mr. Williams)

17. Technique #3 – No Opt Out (bk clip #1, Mr. Williams)
Work-along #6

18. Technique #4 – Right Is Right/ Stretch It (bk clip #3, Mr
Technique #4 – Right Is Right/ Stretch It (bk clip #3, Mr. Armstrong; Ms. Bromley)

19. Technique #4 – Right Is Right/ Stretch It (bk clip #3, Mr
Technique #4 – Right Is Right/ Stretch It (bk clip #3, Mr. Armstrong; Ms. Bromley)
T: How do the families in Romeo and Juliet get along?
S: They don’t like each other.
T: (often does/says . . .)
Right/Right: (Hold out for all the way.)
T: (affirm, if possible;
(HDYKT? follow up)

20. Technique #5 – Circulate (book clip #6—Ms. Dickinson)
Work-along
#8-#9
related to Techniques “Radar” and “BSL (Be Seen Looking)”

21. Technique #6 – Wait Time (book clip #11—Ms. Driggs))
Work-along
#10
A strategic delaying technique:
---Narrated wait time
U. Of FL research – even 1-2 seconds significantly improves quality of student response;
3-5 seconds decreases “IDK’s”

22. Technique #7 – Positive Framing (bk clip #19, Ms. Austin)

23. Technique #7 – Positive Framing (Ms. Volpe)

24. Technique #7 – Positive Framing (book clip #19, Ms. Austin)
Negative VS. Positive Framing
Doctor: “There’s a 10% chance this
operation will not succeed.”

25. Technique #7 – Positive Framing
Correct & guide behavior with these thoughts:
1. Live in the now. Focus on what a student can fix right now to move forward.
2. Assume the best.
“Is the kid giving me a hard time or having
a hard time?”
---What if action student took was intentional?
3. Allow plausible anonymity. Correct students without saying their names. Avoid contingencies.
4. Narrate the positive. Narrate the strengths of what kids in your class are doing.
Work-along
#11
Technique #7 – Positive Framing

26. Technique #8 – Threshold
Work-along
#12

27. Technique #8 – Threshold

28. Technique #9 – Warm/Strict
Contradiction? Are being warm and strict mutually exclusive?

29. Technique #10 – Exit Tickets (fg clip #13 Mr. Pollack, #14 Ms. Picard)

30. ------Please see handout.
Work-along
#14
What do we know about
E x i t T i c k e t s ??
Plenty . . .
------Please see handout.

31. 10 Micro-Techniques Used by Effective Teachers
Potent Pedagogy
If we have time, let’s watch more clips..
I’ll play a clip and you tell me which
technique(s) it illustrates . . .
10 Micro-Techniques Used by Effective Teachers

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Role of Pedagogy at Your School:
Every meeting, every time
Teacher instituted/led/often co-planned
Articles/Books as springboards/excuses to discuss instruction
Flipped faculty meetings to create time for meaningful instructional discourse
Mark Greenberg, Consultant,
Potent Pedagogy