{"id":2061,"date":"2019-09-22T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2019-10-14T12:09:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T12:09:20","slug":"help-for-classroom-assistants-leading-small-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2019\/09\/22\/help-for-classroom-assistants-leading-small-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Help for Classroom Assistants Leading Small Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Classroom helpers are an amazing resource. The extra hands, eyes and brain power lets students receive help sooner than when its one teacher and thirty students.\u00a0 Leading a small group to work on a skill, practice using a tool or studying a curriculum component. Here are a few suggestions to help a small group run smoothly:<\/p>\n

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  1. Arrive on time to organize your materials, find a meeting place and settle in.<\/li>\n
  2. Seat your self strategically – along the side of a long table or in a circle so you can see everyone.<\/li>\n
  3. Establish yourself as the adult guide for the activity by sharing your expectations of manners, arriving\/leaving quietly and actively participating.<\/li>\n
  4. Use wait time (pause 10 seconds before accepting any answer) and ask open-ended questions (where multiple correct answers are possible).<\/li>\n
  5. Keep students focused during their time with you by engaging them in discussions, etc.<\/li>\n
  6. Stop and answer general questions after 5 minutes of work time. Monitor their work time and their progress on their assigned task.<\/li>\n
  7. Praise the quality of their work rather than them as students.<\/li>\n
  8. Give a 5-minute warning as your time together is ending.<\/li>\n
  9. Have the students to the cleanup and gathering of books and supplies you’ll be using for an arriving new group.<\/li>\n
  10. Follow the classroom and emergency procedures the teacher has set up.<\/li>\n
  11. Leave the teacher a daily evaluation (if asked for) then leave quietly.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Please know that you are deeply appreciated by the teacher. Your presence makes the day progress more smoothly.<\/p>\n

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    Classroom helpers are an amazing resource. The extra hands, eyes and brain power lets students receive help sooner than when its one teacher and thirty students.\u00a0 Leading a small group to work on a skill, practice using a tool or studying a curriculum component. Here are a few suggestions to help a small group run\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,20,332,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assistant-tips","category-engaging-students","category-goal-intention-setting","category-expectations-misbehavior-communication-clarifying-monitoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2063,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions\/2063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}