Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

09.13.16 Competence and Trust Part III: Student-Teacher Relationship Building and TLAC

My colleague Dan Cotton has been thinking, and writing about relationships in the classroom.  In previous posts he looked at how a teacher’s instructional competence can directly effect his or her capacity to build trust with students and the manner in which fostering genuine achievement was critical to all enduring teacher-student relationships. In his third and…


06.24.16 Competence and Trust, Part II–A Guest Post From Dan Cotton

This is the second of three posts by my colleague Dan Cotton that’s based on a series of conversations we’ve had about the nature of relationships in the classroom.  The first post appears here.   Dan writes: Consider this brief moment from outstanding high school English teacher Beth Verrilli’s classroom: Her students are reading Macbeth. They’re…