Practice Perfect

APPENDIX B

SAMPLE PRACTICE ACTIVITIES

Here we include three sample practice activities that we use when training teachers and school leaders on using and practicing the techniques from Teach Like a Champion. We hope that these practice activities will provide additional context for how they are discussed in the book as well as concrete examples of how the rules of practice are applied in discrete practice activities.

No Opt Out Iterative Practice

Background.

Champion teachers are quick to establish the expectation that even when students don’t know an answer (yet!), they still have the responsibility to participate in the learning process. One of the ways to accomplish this is through No Opt Out, a technique that ensures that a student who is ...