Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

03.26.20 Online Lessons: George Bramley Wins the Battle of Hastings

As you probably know I’ve been trying to share useful video and analysis of successful approaches to online learning on this blog. One of the big challenges is that synchronous lessons are challenging–challenging to run; limited in terms of how much students can do in a day–while asynchronous lessons are hard to make interactive. As I…


05.22.15 TLaC 2.0 Excerpt: Double Planning

The following is taken from chapter 4 of Teach Like a Champion 2.0.  It’s one of my favorite sections of the new book. It’s natural for teachers to write lessons that focus on what they will be doing: which key points they will cover, questions they will ask, activities they will facilitate, work they will assign,…