Scenario: Setting Up Smooth Transitions

Marvin December 9, 2023

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Scenario: Setting Up Smooth Transitions

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Teacher Becca is setting up her Year 2 classroom at the start of a new school year. Becca’s classroom is small and she wants to prevent problem behaviour and safety issues by setting up smooth transitions between the classroom furniture and materials.

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Becca ensures that containers for student materials are clearly labelled and placed on the shelves closest to each row of desks. She sets up daily boxes for her lesson scripts and other materials at the front of the room next to the whole group teaching area. Becca also prepares a set of routines to teach the students for transitioning, lining up, cleaning up, and emergencies.

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On the first day of school, Becca explicitly teaches her students the routines for accessing materials, transitioning activities, lining up, cleaning up, and emergencies. She uses the ‘I do, We do, You do’ model and provides positive, specific feedback with token rewards during the ‘We do’ practice time.

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Becca uses pre-correcting and reteaching throughout the school year to reinforce the routines for where materials go and how students move through the classroom, especially after long holiday breaks. She reminds herself that taking the time to reinforce routines immediately after these breaks will actually increase the amount of learning time her students will have in the days and weeks after.

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Scenario: Setting Up Smooth Transitions

Marvin December 9, 2023

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