TEACH LIKE A CHAMPION VS AN ENQUIRY APPROACH – IS THERE A MIDDLE GROUND?

Abstract

We were appointed as Co-Heads at Thomas’s Putney Vale, in London, in Sept 2022, after a year of working together as Director of Curriculum Innovation and Director of Teaching and Learning at Thomas’s Battersea. We are developing an enquiry curriculum where students are not left to their own devices to discover independently as some might believe in an enquiry model. Instead, teachers guide students through structured enquiries using recommendations from Doug Lemov’s ‘Teach like a Champion’ (Lemov, 2010; Lemov, 2015; Lemov, 2021).