To truly fall into a routine, students may take several weeks. At the beginning of the year, procedures should be taught and practiced to give structure and efficiency to your class. Given below is the list of routines to be taught in the first few days of school, appropriate for elementary and all other grades.
Backpacks, snacks, Coats and other outer clothing which are not required during school should be put away; firstly, as soon as the child enters the classroom. After that, students can start with their morning work or await morning meeting or can place their previous day homework.
Teachers may also ask students about the things to be updated at this time like flexible seating charts, attendance counts, lunch tags, etc. Note: When the students in secondary grades come in, they are allowed to do their morning tasks independently.
At the end of the day, 15 minutes before the bell rings, students should begin to put all their materials away, but their work for the day in the homework folder and clean off their desk or table.
They should be dismissed only when the class is organized; chairs are stacked, their belongings are gathered and lastly sitting quietly on the carpet. In lower grades, it is very difficult to practice to line up the students efficiently. They should be taught to wait until their row or name is called to grab any material or to put away their supplies.
The importance of lining up silently should be told to the students. Students should remain silent while entering or leaving the classrooms. They must not disturb classmates or other classes when going to the bathrooms, leaving early, coming late, at periods of transition, during lunch or assemblies.
Students should inform the teacher about their whereabouts before leaving in the middle of a lesson. If there is nothing going on around them, some students will make their own activity by messing with another student or by talking out of turn.
Routines help to minimize this behavior by constantly giving students something to do. If students know what is expected of them at certain times of the day, they will follow through with these tasks rather than invent their own less-constructive activities. Routines can be fun, too. If, for example, you have students clean up their desks every day before lunch, you can make it a game by playing a song with a set length.
When they hear the song, they need to clean up their desks as fast as they can. By having this as part of their regular routine, they start to enjoy school and the routine it provides rather than seeing routine as a chore. If you have a set routine, you can have your students carry out daily tasks that require a high level of responsibility.
They may not perfect it the first or even second time, but doing something every day is a surefire way to become proficient at it. Added responsibility also improves student self-esteem. With experience, a teacher can choose the exact song to match each routine. Students love this idea because the songs are silly, they make routines seem… well, less routine, and they represent a challenge. Everyday routines are thus completed quickly and efficiently.
Just point your remote at a boom box and set the routine in motion. PS — Thousands of TV theme songs, old and new, are available to download for free at televisiontunes. Click here and begin receiving classroom management articles like this one in your email box every week. Thank you Michael — the use of theme songs is a wonderful idea — especially now with ipods where you can find and play the songs so quickly….
And with the ability to have so many song choices at your fingertips, iPods are a great way to go. In less than 3 mins, all but 2 students were out the door! I teach in a general Ed. Elementary classroom and there are a ton of transitions a day. We use, and enjoy, music transitions. Any advice on how to make the transitions more quiet? Or even just students not starting to chat again during paper passing, etc? You set your expectations and then practice until your students get it.
In other words, if your students stray from those expectations, you send them back to redo the transition. Privacy Policy.
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