Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

01.09.15 My New Favorite Word

My new favorite word is ‘pause’- especially when it’s used in place of the word ‘stop.’  We’ve been discussing this a lot lately at our workshops- in a lot of different settings. Consider, for example, a ‘rally-killer,’ a student who hogs the stage at exactly the wrong time: you ask for a piece of evidence that…