I must say, I feel slightly inadequate discussing classroom management, mainly because I haven't been involved in the education system long enough to really give it the old college try. I have my assumptions on what might work, in addition to what might not work, but because I'm still in the observing phase, these thoughts remain assumptions.
That being said: Currently, I'm in a grade 2 classroom, and I have managed to glean the following: the importance of transitions cannot be understated. They're huge. Not just that, they set the tempo and they feed into activities which are to follow. Flub the transition and that which is to come, suffers. In light of this, here are some things that I have managed to observe: Communication: Talk to your students; make sure they know the classroom expectations. For primary grades, repetition of said expectations is key...is key...is key. Routine: ...That being said, don't be so tied to routine that anything that isn't part of the pre-formed plan gets discarded. But, know what you want to do, know how you want to get there, and do it enough (repetition) so that the students can understand the cues and own the process. Timing For any 20 minute activity, plan for a bookend of transition time, on each side, in which to begin the process of shifting from one thing to the next. I would suggest, especially for primary classes, a minimum of 3-5 minutes for this shift.
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