Reminder that @Doug_Lemov’s Teach Like A Champion is one of the great books there are on behaviour in classrooms. It was written by someone who worked in challenging classrooms, informed by observing teachers who succeeded in similar conditions. Every teacher should read it

What’s remarkable about it is that it isn’t written as a piece of theory; it’s rooted in practice, and what great teachers do. What’s remarkable about it is that it is *useful*

Success begets critics; what seems to unify them is that they rarely if ever:
1. Have taught in a challenging school
2. Have taught *successfully* in a challenging school
3. Send their children to challenging schools.
This is important

If you’ve only ever known advantage, been taught, or teach in schools with privileged circumstances, it’s easy to believe that great behaviour is natural, and easy to achieve. That all you need is to ask. Most teachers know this is rubbish.

So while I understand commentators speaking from a position of ignorance, it’s bitterly ironic that their complaints often revolve around justice, when the strategies they suggest result in horrendously inequitable outcomes for the least advantaged.

They promote circumstances where children in the toughest circumstances find it harder, and congratulate themselves on their munificence, like diners at a charity gala.

Meanwhile in the real world, this is a great book. Teachers would do a lot worse than to stand on the shoulders of this giant. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Teach-Like-Champion-2-0-Techniques/dp/1118901851/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?adgrpid=53288594335&dchild=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIha6Yzr-a7AIVSrDtCh3wQwXKEAAYAiAAEgIPKPD_BwE&hvadid=259131190720&hvdev=m&hvlocphy=9045006&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=7371679845469531551&hvtargid=kwd-300301298570&hydadcr=4144_1773425&keywords=teach+like+a+champion&qid=1601799363&sr=8-1&tag=hydrukspg-21