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The 49 Techniques first came to my attention in a March 7, 2010 article in the New York Times Magazine entitled "Can Good Teaching Be Learned?" The story focused on the book Teach Like a Champion by Doug Lemov. Having taught with mixed success in inner city Philadelphia, I recognized the efficacy of the techniques, even in tough to handle classrooms. This article brings links to all of the blogs I have written together in one place.

Setting High Academic Expectations

Technique One: No Opt Out Teachers with high expectations don't accept "I don't know," but expect students to be engaged and "give it a shot."

Technique Two: Right is Right This technique accepts no half answers, but asks for complete and correct answers to questions.

Technique Three: Stretch It This technique pushes a teacher to take correct answers and ask students to add depth or nuance to their answers.

Technique Four: Format Matters High expectations also means only accepting students answers in complete sentence with good grammar.

Technique Five: No Apologies Teachers with high expectations don't apologize for what they teach. No more "Sorry I have to teach you Shakespeare."

Technique 39: Do It Again Repetition is one way to be sure that students understand what you expect and that it is done to your standards.

Planning that Ensures Academic Achievement

Technique Seven: The Four M's The four m's of planning are Manageable, Measureable, Made first and Most Important.

Technique Eight: Post It Be sure your students know your objective for the day by posting it on the board.

Technique Nine: The Shortest Path Although teachers are often enamored with clever approaches, Lemov asserts that the shortest path to the objective is the most effective.

Technique 10: Double Plan Double planning involves planning not only what you will do, but also what the students will do during a lesson.

Technique 11: Draw the Map Drawing the map is controlling the environment by wisely grouping students through the seating chart.

Structuring and Delivering Your Lessons

Technique 12: The Hook. Introducing the lesson with a "hook," an activity or item that grabs the attention of your students will help enhance your lesson.

Technique 13: Name the steps. Great coaches, like great teachers, break down the tasks into steps.

Technique 14: Board = Paper This technique means that students put everything you put on the board on their paper.

Technique 15: Circulate Keep moving! Drawing the map suggests making room between the desks so the teacher move unhindered.

Technique 16: Break it Down Breaking it down requires the teacher to use the wrong answers and help students discover the correct number.

Technique 17: Ratio Part One This is a complex idea, and requires two parts! It involves increasing student participation and limiting teacher talk.

Technique 17: Ratio Part Two More strategies for increasing the time students are involved in discussion.

Technique 18: Check for Understanding This is an on your feet method of data collection, sort of a formative assessment on the run.

Technique 19: At Bats Baseball coaches know that the best way to increase effectiveness is to increase the number of times they are "at bat."

Technique 20: Exit ticket An exit ticket is a quick formative assessment of the lesson your students just finished.

Technique 21: Take a Stand This technique encourages students to have opinions and to take stands on those opinions.

Engaging Students in your Lesson

Technique 22: Cold Calls Like the sales technique, the teacher asks someone who is unsuspecting for an answer. It avoids "opting out," and keeps all your students on their toes.

Technique 23: Call and Response This technique uses a tradition from African American hymnody, and creates a way that the whole class can participate in questioning

Technique 24: Pepper Like a coach lobbing balls to his fielders, a teacher can "pepper" his or her students with fast paced questions, which makes it fun and keeps students on their toes.

Technique 25: Wait Time Teachers are too often too impatient, and provide an answer to their own question when no student pops a hand up. On the other hand, teachers also don't give students time to shape a complete, thoughtful response to a question.

Technique 26: Everybody Writes What goes on the board needs to go in the notebooks.

Technique 27: Vegas Nothing like a little glitz to liven up classroom instruction!

Creating a Strong Classroom Culture

Technique 28: Entry Routine Having a structured entry routine expedites the beginning of instruction.

Technique 29: Do Now Familiar to elementary teachers and devotees of Harry Wong as "bell work," Do Nows are brief academic tasks to review the previous day's work or to introduce the days new work.

Technique 30: Tight Transitions Transitions need to be scripted and rehearsed, so little time is wasted between instructional activities.

Technique 32: SLANT SLANT is an acronym for what excellent attention behavior looks like.

Technique 33: On Your Mark Coaches expect athletes to be ready to engage in their sport. In the same way, a teacher shows students what they need to be "on their mark."

Technique 34: Seat Signals Simple hand signals simplify requesting routine interruptions, such as using a bathroom or getting a pencil, can eliminate some of the waste of time that plague instruction.

Technique 35: Props In Teach Like a Champion parlance, props are fun routines the class does together to support the success of their peers.

Building and Maintaining High Behavioral Expectations

Technique 36: 100 Percent Champion teachers don't create unreasonable behavioral expectations, because their final expectation is that everyone conforms all (100%) of the time.

Technique 37: What to Do. Be sure, if you are asking for compliance, that you have been very explicit in explaining what it is you want your students "To Do."

Technique 38: Strong Voice Part One and Part Two This technique, strong voice, is one that separates the really effective teacher from the adequate. It's in two parts so you understand it's use and how to acquire it.

The Blogs below continue the chapter "Setting and Maintaining High Behavioral Expectations."

Technique 39: Do It Again. This technique is perhaps the only negative consequence that truly works. When students fail to meet your standards, you ask them to "Do it again." They model the appropriate behavior, but are eager not to have to do it again.

Technique 40: Sweat the Details Building on the "broken window" theory of policing, Lemov notes that maintaining high standards will have positive effects across the classroom environment.

Technique 41: Threshold This threshold is the one at the door. By meeting and greeting students as they enter you can set the tone for your class.

Technique 42: No Warnings. Responding early and proportionately can help you avoid real crises. So rather than giving warning, you mete out consequences when the behavior is still only a minor problem.

Building Character and Trust

Technique 43 Part 1: Positive Framing. Positive Framing means casting things in a way that is positive and leads to appropriate behavior. This blog starts with three strategies to help you frame it positively.

Technique 43 Part 2. Three more strategies for framing classroom experiences positively.

Technique 44: Precise Praise. Rather than "cheap praise," precise praise is valued by students because it describes what it is you are pleased with.

Technique 45: Warm and Strict. It may seem that warm and strict are contradictory, but effective teachers can be both at the same time.

Technique 46: The J Factor. The J in J factor stands for Joy. This technique offers ideas to help your students experience the Joy!

Technique 47: Emotional Constancy An effective teacher keeps his or her emotions in check, and doesn't make it all about him or herself. Make your good moods about good performance, not about pleasing you.

Technique 48: Explain Everything. Be sure your students understand why you do what you do, as the why is an important part of instruction.

Technique 49: Normalize Error. If students understand that errors are not the end of the world but an opportunity to learn, they will be more willing to take risks and more likely to learn.

Teach Like a Champion is an excellent resource for teaching, especially for middle school and high school students. Besides the 49 techniques, it includes recommendations for improving instructional delivery. The book also includes video demonstrations of the techniques which make it well worth investing in the book.

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We love our iPads, and from time to time we'll discover a new thing that makes us love them even more. From Siri's skewed sense of humor to the smart multitasking of the most recent models, every iPad has something to excite and delight its users.

In fact, there's so much good stuff in iOS that many of us don't know about some of the most useful, clever or entertaining things our devices can do.

That's why we've put together this guide, covering everything from simple tweaks to really clever computing. Do you have a favorite we've missed? Let us know in the comments.

1. Create folders

You can create a new folder by clicking on an app, holding your finger down and then dragging it over another app. Let go and the two apps will now appear in a folder. Rather brilliantly you can put folders in the Dock for fast access to your favorite apps.

2. See what's running

Double-clicking the home button shows you everything that's currently running. To close an app that's misbehaving or that you no longer need, just flick it upwards to get rid of it.

3. Use Control Center

Swiping up from the very bottom of the screen brings up Control Center, which gives you easy access to key features such as mute, orientation lock, Airplane Mode and so on. When iOS 11 drops, Control Center will get a simpler design and the ability to customize what it offers.

4. Booby-trap your data

Worried about your personal data falling into the wrong hands? In Settings > Touch ID & Passcode you can get your iPad to erase everything if there are 10 consecutive failures to enter the correct passcode.

5. Use the secret trackpad

If you touch the on-screen keyboard with two fingers in an app such as Mail, it becomes a trackpad: as your fingers move so does the cursor. It's a real boon for editing documents.

6. Control what notifications you get

It's easy to let notifications get out of control: it seems that every app wants to notify you about everything it notices.

If it all gets a bit too much you can go into Settings > Notifications and turn off the ones you don't want. You can also change how specific notifications are delivered and whether they should make a sound.

7. Connect to a VPN

If you have access to a virtual private network, your iPad can connect to it. Just go into Settings > General > VPN and enter the relevant details. Unlike VPN apps, which may only protect data from within those apps, this setting applies system-wide.

8. Silence Wi-Fi network prompts

Are you troubled by endless offers of Wi-Fi networks you don't want to connect to? Go into Settings > Wi-Fi > Ask to Join Networks and toggle the switch off. That's better.

9. Explore your battery

Settings > Battery enables you to turn off the percentage display if you don't want it, but it also does something more useful: it shows you which apps have been using the most energy, and it offers power-saving tips too.

10. Use text shortcuts

If you tend to use the same blocks of text again and again, set them up as Text Replacement items in Settings > General > Keyboards. This enables you to create shortcuts, so for example we've got a semicolon followed by "sorryno" to automate polite replies to product pitches.

11. Use emoji

To use emoji, just tap on the smiley face key at the bottom left of your iPad's on-screen keyboard; to return to normal, tap ABC. No smileys? Go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Add New Keyboard and select Emoji from the list.

12. Split the keyboard

Apple's keyboard can do some clever things, such as splitting in two so you can use it with your thumbs. To split the keyboard just drag it apart (to the left and right) with two fingers; to put it back again just drag it back together.

13. Stream via AirPlay

If you have an AirPlay compatible device - an Apple TV, an AirPlay speaker - you can stream movies and music from your iPad by tapping the AirPlay icon in Control Center. If your device isn't AirPlay-enabled look for an app such as Tubio, which streams to all kinds of things in pristine HD.

14. Take a screenshot

This works on the iPhone too: press the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons simultaneously and you'll hear a click. The screenshot is automatically added to your Photos library.

15. See two apps at once

Slide Over works with iPads from the iPad Air / iPad mini 2 onwards, and enables you to quickly use another app without leaving the current one. With one finger, slide from the middle right of the screen towards the middle and you should see the Slide Over panel.

Choose the app you want to use and it'll slide over the current app until you slide it back again. To change the app that appears next time you use Slide Over, open the panel and then drag from the top downwards to see the available apps.

16. Use gestures for multitasking

You can quickly access the home screen by pinching with four or five fingers, bring up the app switcher by swiping up with those fingers or switch between apps by swiping left or right. If you keep triggering these swipes by mistake you can turn them off in Settings > General > Multitasking.

17. Use two apps at once

You'll need a recent iPad for this one: Split View, which allows you to run two apps side by side or two sites in Safari, only works on the iPad Air 2, the iPad Mini 4 and newer devices. To use it, drag as if you were using Slide Over and then drag the app divider to the middle of the screen.

18. Use Google

Apple would like you to use iCloud for everything, of course, but many of us prefer Gmail and Google Calendar. No worries: Settings > Calendar > Accounts takes you step by step through the process of adding Google Calendar, while Settings > Mail does the same for Gmail.

19. Watch videos while doing something else

Here's another one for recent iPads: Picture in Picture is not available for iPads older than the iPad Air or iPad Mini 2.

When you're watching a film or having a FaceTime video call you'll see a little icon of a screen with an arrow in it. Tap it and the video scales down, tap it again and the video returns to normal size.

20. Use AirPrint

Printing wirelessly is easy if you've got an AirPrint printer: assuming your printer and iPad are both on the same Wi-Fi network it's just a matter of tapping the Share menu in your app and choosing Print. Your iPad should automatically find the printer.

21. Control what apps do in the dark

Some apps like to do things in the background, which can be useful: it's handy to have your newspaper ready to read when you turn on your iPad in the morning for example.

But background refresh could also mean apps using bandwidth for no good reason, which isn't ideal if you're on a cellular connection. And as ever, Facebook tends to demand more resources than it really needs.

You can control which apps can use background refresh in Settings > General > Background App Refresh.

The Share button in apps is a brilliant thing, allowing you to send data to printers, email or other apps.

And you can customize it: if you tap on it, scroll right and choose More, you'll see which features can be turned on or off. One of our favorites is Send to Paprika, which we use to automatically download recipes to the recipe app.

23. Enable caps lock

THIS ONE'S EASY! JUST DOUBLE-TAP THE SHIFT KEY! TAP AGAIN to turn it off.

24. Manage your storage

It doesn't take long to fill up even the biggest iPad, and until iOS 11 drops you'll often find you need to manually free up space for your apps.

Your iPad can help. Go to Settings > General > Storage & iCloud Usage > Manage Storage and you can see what's taking up space, and delete it if you don't want it.

25. Attach things in Mail

To insert things into Mail messages, press and hold in an empty bit of the message and a toolbar appears. To add photo or video from your Photos library, choose Insert Photo or Video; to add files from iCloud Drive, Dropbox or other installed storage apps tap on Add Attachment.

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Free Technology for Teachers: Frequently Overlooked Google Search Tools and Strategies

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This morning I spent some time reading the first part of the solution to Dr. Daniel Russell's most recent search challenge on Search ReSearch. Dr. Russell is a search anthropologist working at Google. Every week he posts search challenges that are designed to introduce you to new ways of searching for information.

The solution to Dr. Russell's recent challenge of finding the places Mark Twain mentions in "Around the Equator"? involves a strategy that I had not thought of or even knew existed until this morning. That strategy includes a creating a spreadsheet and then extracting named entities from it. To be honest, I would need Dr. Russell's tutorial open on a monitor next to me in order to replicate the process.

Reading through the solution to Dr. Russell's search challenge, which is a very advanced one that I wouldn't expect most high school students to employ, got me thinking about a search strategy and tools that I haven't employed before. That prompted me into thinking about creating a list of accessible search tools and strategies that middle school and high school students often overlook. Here's my short list of tools and strategies that are often overlooked.

Google Books: Google Books can be a good research tool for students if they are aware of it and know how to use it. In the video below I provide a short overview of how to use Google Books for research. You can also find screenshots of the process here.

Google Scholar: Google Scholar, like Google Books, is one of the research tools that students often overlook when searching on the web. Google Scholar can be an excellent place for high school and college students to find peer-reviewed academic papers, journals, theses, books, and court opinions. In the video below I demonstrate how to create a library of resources in Google Scholar as well as how to create Google Scholar Alerts that will notify you when new content related to your research appears in Google Scholar.

You can find screenshots of these processes here.

Google Earth, Maps, and Street View imagery: When confronted with a location-based search challenge Google Earth and Google Maps can provide a student with a lot of clues. Looking at placemark information in a Google Earth or Google Maps file can often reveal a clue if not the complete answer to a challenge. Likewise, Street View imagery provides visual clues that you might not otherwise find in a Google Images search. Dr. Russell suggests comparing historical and current imagery in Google Street View. Read the full explanation here.

Control F (Command F): Many students have the bad habit of only glancing at the webpages they open from a search results page. Or worse yet, only reading the brief snippet that appears below the link in a search results page. The reason for this behavior that students often give is "it takes too long to read the whole page." To remedy this teach your students to use "Control F" (Windows) or "Command F" (Mac) when they open a webpage from the search results page. Control F or Command F allows you to search within any webpage for any letter, word, or phrase. Using this function can be quite helpful to students who want to determine whether or not a particular webpage contains information relevant to their research topics. Simply seeing the count of the number of times a word or term appears on a page can be an indicator of whether or not the page contains information relevant to a research topic.

Public Data Explorer: Google's Public Data Explorer draws on data sets from the World Bank, the US CDC, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, and other sources of public data. This is a great tool when I'm conducting a search that is centered around statistics. For example, it was much quicker to find the 1997 unemployment rate for Maine by searching in the Public Data Explorer than it was to do the same search at Google.com.

Image Metadata: pictures taken with digital cameras often contain a lot of information in the form of metadata. That metadata can tip you off to when and where a picture was taken. That information can then be used as clues to solving a larger search challenge. A great example of this can be found in this Search ReSearcher challenge from April, 2013. Check out FotoForensics for a tutorial on accessing image metadata.

Google Advanced Search Page: The Google Advanced Search menu should be bookmarked on every student's computer. From this page students can quickly refine searches according to file type, region, language, usage rights, reading level, domain, and or site. The advanced menu is also great for students who have forgotten about things like using quotation marks around search terms, using "or," and how to exclude words from search results.

And just as a reminder, on the Google Search Education site you will find beginner, intermediate, and advanced lesson plans for five skill sets.

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This morning I spent some time reading the first part of the solution to Dr. Daniel Russell's most recent search challenge on Search ReSearch. Dr. Russell is a search anthropologist working at Google. Every week he posts search challenges that are designed to introduce you to new ways of searching for information.

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25 Most Useful Websites And Apps For Students That Will Make You Smarter

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Many people say that today's college students have it easy. All information they need is at their fingertips, so they can easily complete all academic projects after browsing the Internet for a few hours. However, that's not what happens in reality. The curriculums have become more rigorous than ever, so college students have to think of different ways of increasing their productivity and motivation.

Luckily, there are many apps and websites that will improve their skills of time management, planning, brainstorming, writing, socializing, and many other aspects of student life. In this article you will find a list of 25 websites, apps and tools that will immediately turn you into a smarter student.

Among all the new responsibilities as a college student, budgeting may be the toughest one. StudentRate.com is a website where you can find great discounts and steal deals that range from textbooks, to travel, to technology.

With the help of this website, you can always get your papers and assignments ready for submission. The company will assign your projects to real experts, so you can be sure that the results will be excellent.

Koofers enables you to access flashcards and prepare for exams more easily. In addition, students use Koofers to get information about job and internship openings and to get hired in adequate positions.

Missing important classes is out of the question if you want to be a successful college student. Let's see if you can sleep through this alarm! It's annoying, but will get you out of bed for sure.

When you need to study hard for exams, you can access OpenStudy and become part of study groups for history, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and other courses you take.

When you forget about the importance of exercising, this app will remind you that there is always time for investing in your health and fitness.

When you write a paper, you have to make sure it's perfect in all aspects before turning it in. At this website, you can easily hire a professional editor to smooth out the content and start getting better grades on your academic assignments.

When you're too tired to read the book for your literature class, listening to an audiobook will help a lot. Now you can spend your time productively when waiting in line or taking long walks.

You can save a small fortune by buying and selling your textbooks online. There are other websites with a similar purpose, but Half is the easiest one to use.

Gaining budgeting wisdom takes time and effort, but everything will go much more smoothly with the help of Mint - a free app that will categorize and organize the expenses for you.

At this website, you can research the topic of your interest and get a customizable concept map that will help you make the studying materials cooler. You will easily remember important information thanks to the interactive visual interface.

Sometimes you forget to turn your phone off during classes, and that's exactly when your parents decide to call you. This Android app will help you avoid interrupting the class and getting on the professor's nerves.

No matter how much you dislike taking notes and making flashcards, those learning strategies are important if you want to make your studying easier. StudyBlue enables you to make fun flashcards and take notes anywhere, anytime.

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It is very important to stay away from distractions during studying time. This free Mac app will help you avoid Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other distracting websites.

When you are about to create your class schedule, you can check the reputation of different professors at this website.

This awesome planner will help you organize your life throughout college. You can use it on your iPhone, Mac or iPad to enter a smart summary of all planned events for the day.

The speeches featured at this website are not only motivational, but informative as well. TED is a reliable resource you can use to get ideas and resources for your projects.

Instead of typing like a maniac, you can become more productive by dictating. Dragon Dictation will instantly transform your words into text.

Your files and folders hold important information that needs to be protected from loss. SugarSync will make you feel safe, but will also make your work easier because it will sync the files on multiple devices.

Quizlet enables you to study vocabulary, languages, and many other things for free. It supports effective study tools that will help you see learning as a fun activity.

When you don't understand what your eloquent professor is saying, you can access this smartphone app and translate his expressions into simple words.

Wikipedia is really overestimated, and your professors don't appreciate it. Thanks to this app, you can access expert knowledge and trustworthy information whenever you need it and wherever you are.

When your professors drop important information unexpectedly, this app will prevent you from missing it. This is a super fast note-taker that will save you when you least expect it.

With the help of this scientific calculator, you may actually start enjoying calculating. You don't have to invest in an expensive calculator to use in class when you have this brilliant software at your disposal.

This extensive library of interactive test prep courses will help locate all exam study material you need. BenchPrep also provides an impressive base of flashcards, practice questions and study lessons.

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Many people say that today's college students have it easy. All information they need is at their fingertips, so they can easily complete all academic projects after browsing the Internet for a few hours. However, that's not what happens in reality.