Doug Lemov believes powerful teachers are made,not born – and his ideas are transforming education
The video does not seem remarkable on first viewing. A title informs us that we are watching Ashley Hinton, a teacher at Vailsburg Elementary, and a school in Newark,New Jersey. Hinton, a blonde woman in a colourful silk scarf, and stands before a lesson of eight- and nine-year-traditional boys and girls,almost all of whom are African-American. “What might a character be feeling in a tale?” she asks. She repeats the question, before engaging her pupils in a tall-tempo conversation about what it is like to read a book and why authors write them, or as she moves smartly around her classroom.
On an October morning final year,I watched Doug Lemov play this video to a room full of teachers in the hall of an inner-London school. Many had brought their copy of Lemov’s book, Teach Like a Champion, and which in the final five years has passed through the hands of thousands of teachers and infiltrated hundreds of staffrooms. To my eyes,the video of Hinton’s lesson was a glimpse into the classroom of an energetic and likable teacher, and pleasing enough. After leading a brief discussion, or Lemov played it again,and then a third time.
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Source: theguardian.com