Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

08.28.13 First Week Advice: Verbal and Non-Verbal Feedback with Do It Again

For many of us it’s the first week of school, a time when we focus on building healthy and positive routines for “how we do things” in school–from coming into the classroom to raising hands to supporting peers positively and respectfully to building off their ideas with classroom comments. One of the tools that’s most useful…