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Standard 5: Positive Classroom Environment
Quality Indicator 2: Management of time, space, transitions, and activities
Manages time, space, transitions, and activities in
their classroom.
Growth Guide 5.2 – Teach Like a Champion Techniques
Emerging Developing Proficient Distinguished
5E2) The emerging teacher…
5D2) The developing teacher also… 5P2) The proficient teacher 5S2) The distinguished teacher
also…
also…
Effectively manages time, space,
transitions, and activities to
create an environment that
enhances student engagement.
Organizes, allocates, and
manages time, space,
transitions and activities to
promote continuous
student engagement and
high levels of productivity.
Score = 0 1 2 3 4
Technique 8: Post It
5 6 7
Lesson objective is posted in a visible location – same location every day – and identifies your purpose for teaching that day.
Teacher
Clearly communicate to anyone entering your room the intent of your lesson
Particularly helpful for walk-throughs and other mechanisms for feedback on performance
Lemov, Doug. (2010) Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that put students on the path to college. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Shares with others effective
strategies for managing
time, space, transitions and
activities to promote
continuous student
engagement and high levels
of productivity.
Student
Knows what the teacher is trying to do in the lesson for that day and works more
intentionally toward that goal
Technique 10: Double Plan
It’s as important to plan for what students will be doing during each phase of a lesson as it is to plan for what you will be doing and saying.
Teacher
Student
Too often, planning only focusing on what the teacher is doing and fails to account for what What students will do during the lesson? Taking notes? Writing Summaries?
the student does. Thinking and planning for what students will do allows you to see your
lesson through their eyes and keeps them productively engaged. Use a T-Chart with “You”
on one side and “Them” on the other
Technique 11: Draw the Map
Control the physical environment to support the specific lesson goal for the day
Teacher
Student
Include space planning as a part of lesson planning. Think about the way you want students’ Environment around them supports learning; walls communicate information and
bodies engaged in a lesson as well as their minds. You have to be able to get anywhere in the motivation about learning
room and within a foot of any student at all times. The walls in the rooms should avoid
overstimulation and distraction; walls should be functional not just decorative and
motivating