from marikolee

This book was an excellent read about the craft of teaching. I would recommend it for anyone with any interest in teaching. This book broke down and explained in clear detail "what to do" (technique 37) to teach students what you would like them to learn. For good teachers who want to become bett...

from honkneeb

I have been teaching a long time, but I have never seen 49 good techniques set up in a book so compactly. I have done some of the techniques and not used the names that the the author does. I like the way he explains why a particular technique is especially good to use. All teachers complain abou...

from SamMusher

Interesting to read this along with Robert Fried's The Passionate Teacher. It's oriented toward practicality, rather than being about love of learning for its own sake. I kept reading techniques from Lemov that directly opposed what Fried suggested. Fried's was the more fun to read, but I think I...

from benuathanasia

This is a great deal to digest. However, the amount of simple, obvious, and ingenious suggestions are completely invaluable. This should be used more as a reference guide where you look up suggestions as needed, rather than a book where you read it once, absorb what you can, and then put it aside...

from marikolee

This book was an excellent read about the craft of teaching. I would recommend it for anyone with any interest in teaching. This book broke down and explained in clear detail "what to do" (technique 37) to teach students what you would like them to learn. For good teachers who want to become bett...