Classroom management during transitions...

[Adam Waxler]

As I start thinking ahead to the new school year as well as teaching my classroom management class at MCC this fall I began to jot down some notes about transitioning between activities...

I turned into an article entitled: How to Handle Classroom Management During Transitions.

You can read it here: http://www.teaching-tips-machine.com/classroom_management_tips.htm

Hope you find it helpful...

--Adam

[parise1]

This makes a lot of good points. Thanks for posting this. I think it is going to be helpful to a lot of people.

[Lyndsey]

It definitely addresses a potential area of weakness. My students all ahve dyslexia and/or attention deficit disorder, so they are quite manageable when kept consistently busy. there is however, potential for trouble in that "dead time' or at least less structured time  between actvities.

[wldywall]

Well, Adam, let me throw you for a loop.  How do you deal with the a spllit class?  I have a class where the lunch hour is in the middle of the class (7th grade) so I have 27 mins before lunch, 1/2 hour lunch, and 27 after lunch.  How do I deal with THAT kind of transition? 

[Adam Waxler]

Wow!  That has to be really tough...

I would definitely start the "second" lesson with another another Do Now.  Yes, that class would basically have two Do Nows every day.  The second Do Now would be a quick review question of the "first" lesson.  My expectations for following the Do Now procedure would be the same...

I would also, start the second lesson by going over the agenda for the 2nd half of class and the objective for the second half of class...

In essence, I would treat the class like two separate lessons rather than 1 lesson that it is disrupted by lunch in the middle of it everyday.

Of course, I have never experienced this so that is just my suggestion and how I would go about teaching that class.

[chimj]

I am hoping to get some followup on if the suggestions worked.  Seems that no one has responded to this in a while. 

Anyone?