Here is a teaching tip for those first couple of back to school days…

As many experts in education stress…teachers must TEACH the procedures they want the students to follow…

So here’s my back to school tip…

Pick the 5 most important procedures you want your students to follow in order to make your class run smoothly.

For example, the five I picked for my classroom are
1. How they enter the room
2. How to do the “do now” activity
3. What to do when they hear the timer go off
4. What to do at the end of the class
5. How to fill out their planner

Obviously, the procedures you choose will depend greatly on your grade level and style of teaching.

I printed out an outline with my top 5 procedures and the steps involved with each one.

On the very first day of school, I will hand students the classroom procedures outline, we will read through it together, I will then demonstrate (model) the procedures for the students, and finally, I will have the students practice each of the 5 procedures.

If you really want students to follow your classroom procedures, you must follow these steps:
1. tell them the procedure
2. model the procedure for the students
3. have students practice the procedure
4. review and reinforce the procedure throughout the first weeks of school

So my back to school tip is to simply pick your five most important procedures and design a plan to teach your students to follow those procedures.

Trust me, this is not a waste of time…teaching procedures in this manner will make the rest of your school year run much smoother!

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A new school year is right around the corner…will you be ready?

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