Great teaching can be learned. Doug Lemov, admits that he himself was no “champion teacher,” but he has studied, through countless
hours of observations, what it is that successful teachers do. He focuses on public schools, primarily those serving the inner city.
Taking a page from the playbook of Jim Collins who studied what separated the “good” from the “great” companies, Lemov looked
for those teaching techniques that separated the merely good teachers from the great ones. This book is a compilation of those
techniques and is presented as a toolbox for teachers who want to improve their craft. Lemov purposefully presents “techniques” and
not “strategies.” He has memories of going to workshops as a teacher and returning with inspirational and yet vague initiatives to
“hold high expectations” or “teach kids and not content.” Yet it was the more specific suggestions from a peer about what to say and
do that helped him to improve his teaching, “When you want them to follow your directions, stand still.” It is with the goal of
providing teachers with more specific guidance about their teaching craft that Lemov compiled and now presents 49 specific teaching
techniques in this book.
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