![]() ![]() ‘Format Matters’ – make sure that students are responding in a way that communicates the worthiness of their ideas. Why? Most students will initially give a ‘safe’ answer, so it’s important to stretch their thinking, with a more challenging question. ‘ Stretch it’ – the reward for a ‘correct’ answer, should be a harder question. Keep going with your questioning until their response meets your high expectations. ‘Right is Right’ – when students are responding to questions, don’t accept superficial or partially correct answers. The important thing is that they don’t get away with taking the easy way out. This might include reframing the question, giving a prompt to help them come up with the answer, or asking another student and getting the original student to repeat the correct answer back to you. ‘No Opt Out’ – rather than allowing students to get away with ‘ I don’t know’ as a response to a question, find a way to help them get it right and experience success. Here are some of the teaching strategies that Lemov suggests: ![]() How do the most effective teachers thread this through their teaching day in and day out? Doug Lemov, shares some great strategies for this in ‘ Teach Like a Champion 3.0’. ![]() It’s interesting to think about what this really looks like in practice. ![]() It’s not uncommon for teachers and leaders to talk about the importance of high expectations and how they insist on this in their classroom and school. ![]()
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