58. How To Teach Without Interruption During Centers In First Grade
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58. How To Teach Without Interruption During Centers In First Grade

A2ElementaryJuly 8, 202612 min
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In this episode, Molly shows you how to teach without interruption by training students to work independently during centers. Welcome to Part 6 of the full masterclass on how to set up and manage centers in your classroom. You can listen to the entire series in order beginning with Episode 53. After 35 years of teaching, Molly learned that students working independently at centers don't happen by accident - they happen because students are taught exactly what to do before centers ever begin. In this episode, she'll walk you through the step-by-step process she used to...

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So your first step is to create systems and routines for everything you do in your classroom.

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If your small group in center time feels like a sea of interruptions, the problem may not be kids misbehaving. More likely it's because kids haven't been taught how to work independently yet. After more than three decades of teaching, I learned that one of the first things you

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need to do before you let those kids lose its centers is to teach them how to work on their own without constant interruption. In today's episode, I'm sharing exactly how to do that. So let's go.

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So your first step is to create systems and routines for everything you do in your classroom. When you have daily routines that you follow and procedures for everything, kids are going to learn them and be much more self-sufficient. So for instance, what do kids do when their pencil breaks?

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