Planning lessons is important for your students.\u00a0 In-between times, the transitions, need to be planned as well. That’s the time when you can ‘lose’ some students to dis-behavior.<\/p>\n
When are the transition times?<\/p>\n
* arrival, departure from the classroom<\/p>\n
* beginning and end of small groups<\/p>\n
* lining up for leaving\/returning to the room<\/p>\n
* clean-up times<\/p>\n
What works?<\/p>\n
* set <\/strong>clear expectations from day one and stay consistent until the last day of the school year<\/p>\n * practice<\/strong> those expectations as needed, especially at the first of the year and after vacations and extended classroom breaks<\/p>\n * know where<\/strong> you want the students to end up and tell them how <\/strong>you want them to get there (use well thought-out traffic patterns)<\/p>\n * keep the transitions calm<\/strong>– don’t fill their moving time with a lot of directions and conversation<\/p>\n * praise\u00a0 the class (verbally) when they make transitions quickly and quietly<\/p>\n * begin<\/strong> next activity quickly after giving the students a brief time to settle in (count down of 5 to zero is usually enough)<\/p>\n If you keep their need for carrying around materials and supplies to a minimum, the transitions will be more efficient. Tubs make a great way to control needed materials and can be organized before they are needed.<\/p>\n When students need a chance to move around, share that break-from-working activity after<\/strong> they make their transition, never during. Older students may not need any break time time beyond moving to their next activity. Younger students may need a directed break such as:<\/p>\n * stretches or yoga moves<\/p>\n * singing a fun action song like “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes”<\/p>\n * action game\u00a0 like\u00a0 ‘Simon Says’<\/p>\n Settle them back to the activity by another countdown from 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Planning lessons is important for your students.\u00a0 In-between times, the transitions, need to be planned as well. That’s the time when you can ‘lose’ some students to dis-behavior. When are the transition times? * arrival, departure from the classroom * beginning and end of small groups * lining up for leaving\/returning to the room *\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,25,16],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assistant-tips","category-expectations-misbehavior-communication-clarifying-monitoring","category-teacher-tips","tag-transitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}