Teaching Moves: Bite sized Techniques to Transform your Classroom, Blouin, Summer 2026

Course Number:	EDX 5710 S14
Instructor:	Michael Blouin, M.S.
Location:	Online
Dates and Times:	Jul 06, 2026 - Aug 15, 2026. Synchronous meetings on Wednesdays from 3:00-4:30 pm on July 8, July 15, July 22, & July 29.
Credits:	3 Graduate Credits
Tuition:	Set by and payable to Teach Local LLC

Course Description

Course Description: Small shifts can make an enormous difference. This course centers on small “teaching moves” that middle and high school teachers can use to make their jobs more efficient while better supporting their students. We’ll focus primarily on the greatest challenges teachers face: classroom management, work-life balance, designing engaging and well scaffolded lessons, and assessing what students know.

This course is not a general theory course. Instead, we will learn and practice specific, actionable techniques used by experienced educators. Participants will come away with new tools they can use immediately in their classrooms.

Audience: Middle and high school, all subjects, with a Bachelor's Degree

Course Goals & Objectives

Course Goals:

Create meaningful relationships with other teachers; share challenges, successes, advice, and support with one another.
Build competence and confidence in actionable, evidence-based instructional and assessment techniques designed to support all students.
Develop a detailed vision of how they will integrate what they’ve learned into their lessons in the upcoming school year.

Course Objectives: By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

Share successes, challenges, and aspirations with fellow educators while exchanging ideas and strategies in a supportive community of practice.
Confidently (re)design lessons to effectively scaffold content and support all learners.
Explore and practice using at least two new techniques to formatively assess and provide immediate feedback to students.
Consider new classroom management techniques and make a plan to utilize at least two in the coming school year.
Develop a detailed model lesson to practice techniques and serve as a template that can be integrated into one’s practice throughout the school year.

Required Readings/Resources

Costs for required readings/resources, if any, are not included in the course tuition.

Gordon, B. (2020). The joyful teacher: Strategies for becoming the teacher every student deserves. Heinemann.

Lemov, D. (2021). Teach like a champion 3.0: 63 techniques that put students on the path to college. Jossey-Bass.

Excerpts from the following:

Cameron, K. S. (2021). Positively energizing leadership: Virtuous actions and relationships that create high performance. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

Gilmore, B., & Goldberg, G. (2023). Active learning: 40 teaching methods to engage students in every class and every subject, grades 6–12. Corwin.

Hammond, Z. L. (2015). Culturally responsive teaching and the brain: Promoting authentic engagement and rigor among culturally and linguistically diverse students. Corwin.

Lang, J. M. (2021). Small teaching: Everyday lessons from the science of learning (2nd ed.). Jossey-Bass.

Liljedahl, P. (2020). Building thinking classrooms in mathematics, grades K-12: 14 teaching practices for enhancing learning. Corwin.

Oakley, B., Rogowsky, B., & Sejnowski, T. J. (2021). Uncommon sense teaching: Practical insights in brain science to help students learn. TarcherPerigee.

Shalaby, C. (2017). Troublemakers: Lessons in freedom from young children at school. The New Press.

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