This resource offers effective teaching techniques to help teachers, especially those in their first few years, become champions in the classroom. These powerful techniques are concrete, specific, and are easy to put into action the very next day. Training activities at the end of each chapter help the reader further their understanding through reflection and application of the ideas to their own practice. .

Includes index. DVD contains clips of techniques described in the book.

Setting high academic expectations -- Planning that ensures academic achievement -- Structuring and delivering your lessons -- Engaging students in your lessons -- Creating a strong classroom culture -- Setting and maintaining high behavioral expectations -- Building character and trust -- Improving your pacing: additional techniques for creating a positive rhythm in the classroom -- Challenging students to think critically: additional techniques for questioning and responding to students -- How all teachers can (and must) be reading teachers -- The fundamentals: teaching decoding, vocabulary, development, and fluency -- Comprehension: teaching students to understand what they read.