Capital High School
Keep Students Accountable Page
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Pacing- (you may want to use a timer to help you pace your class)
1. Develop awareness
of your own teaching tempo.
2. Watch for nonverbal clues indicating that students are becoming confused,
bored, or restless.
3. Break activities up into short segments.
4. Vary the style as well as the content of instruction.
5. Do not bury students in paperwork.
Using Seatwork Effectively
1. Make seatwork diagnostic
and prescriptive.
2. Develop a specific procedure for obtaining assistance.
3. Establish clear procedures about what to do when finished.
4. Add interest to seatwork.
5. Work through he first several seatwork problems.
6. Monitor students seatwork and make needed adjustments.
7. Monitor seatwork by moving around the room systematically.
8. Spend considerable time in presentation and discussion before assigning seatwork.
9. Keep contacts with individual students relatively short.
10. Have stun dents work together during seatwork.
Summarizing
1. At the end of a lesson,
ask students to write in a journal one thing they have learned.
2. Have students play the role of a reporter and summarize learning.
3. Have students create a skit to act out what they have learned.
4. Ask students to create learning displays.
5. Encourage students to present their learning to others.
6. Display students' work.
7. Provide frequent review sessions.
8. Use tests as tools for summarizing learning.
Making Smooth Transitions
1. Arrange the classroom
for efficient movement.
2. Create and post daily schedule and discuss any changes in schedule each morning.
3. Have material ready for the next lesson.
4. Maintain students' attention until you have given clear instructions for
the activity.
5. Do not do tasks that can be done by the students.
6. Move around the room and attend to individual needs.
7. Provide students with step-by-step directions.
8. Remind students of key procedures associated with the upcoming lesson.
9. Use group competition to stimulate more orderly transitions.
10. Develop Transition activities.