Teachers that exude confidence in delivery of engaging and effective lessons are able to “experience the classroom through their students’ eyes”, according to a prominent US-based educator.

Doug Lemov believes that great teachers “constantly” imagine what it must be like for pupils in any given lesson and adapt their plans to ensure that expectations are met.

“One of the techniques I understand much better now than I did in the first book is ‘double plan’,” he said in an interview with TES. “What great teachers do is plan what they’ll be doing, but also what their kids will be doing.”

The teacher turned writer is becoming renowned in academic circles around the world, with manyeducators in the UK relying on his Teach Like a Champion book for inspiration in the classroom.

Mr Lemov told the education news provider that the follow up - Teach Like a Champion 2.0 – builds on the original book by “elevating” certain aspects. This offers a better overview of how to deploy a number of strategies more effectively.

In a lecture given in London in September, the expert said that teachers should be trusted to deliver results, instead of constantly being directed by headteachers and policymakers.

“I personally love teachers – respect and admire them above all else,” Mr Lemov told audience members. “I don’t like it when teachers get told what to do. I like it when teachers get told what they have to deliver – an outstanding outcome in maths – and trusted to deliver it.”

He expanded by saying that great teachers often go against their superiors, often doing, for example, “the opposite of what it says in the teacher training manual”.

In Teach Like a Champion, Mr Lemov describes great teaching as being akin to an art. He explains by saying that novelists, artists and sculptors transform basic materials with a high level of skill to make something profound.

This principle applies to teachers who are able to, with the right skills and know-how, deliver the very best in what they do.