Teach Like a

Champion
Chapter 7: Building Character and Trust
Chapter 8: Improving Your Pacing
TEAM GOLD: Askew, Boardman, Hailey, Mann, Muoz

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Techniques:
Positive Framing
Precise Praise
Warm/Strict
The J-Factor
Emotional Constancy
Explain Everything
Normalize Error

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Positive Framing means
. narrating the world you
want you students to see
even while you are
relentlessly improving it,
making corrections
consistently and
positively. It depends also
on intervening when
student behavior requires
it.

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To frame positively:
Live in the now. Talk about what should happen next.
Assume the best.
Allow plausible anonymity.
Build momentum by narrating the positive.
Challenge your students.
Talk expectations and aspiration.

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Positive Framing: Ms. Austins class
Listen for examples of positive words,
phrases or interventions.
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Positive framing can help you eliminate nagging-harping
on what students have already done wrong. Talk about what
should or even must happen next. Focus corrective
interactions on the things students should do right now to
succeed from this point forward.

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Positive

Negative

Scott, I need your eyes forward.

Scott, stop looking at Lisa

Show me your eyes, ELT

ELT, some of us are not paying

attention

Carol, I am talking about positive

framing. Your eyes should be on me.

Carol, I am tired to ask you to look at

me when I present.

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Make them positive
Positive

Negative

Just a minute, class; some people

dont seem to think they should
wait for the bell before standing by
the door.
Eric, why havent you finished the
warm-up? You only answered 3 out
of 5.
Darcy, please wait to answer until
Todd decides to join us.

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Improving Your Pacing

Additional Techniques for Creating a Positive RHYTHM in the

classroom

Key Ideas/Strategies:
Pacing: The speed at which you teach the illusion of Speed
Change the Pace
Brighten lines
All hands
Every minute matters
Look forward
Work the clock

Improving Your Pacing

Additional Techniques for Creating a Positive RHYTHM in the

classroom

Improving Your Pacing

Additional Techniques for Creating a Positive RHYTHM in the

classroom