59. Routines And Procedures First Grade Teachers Need To Teach For Better Classroom Management
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59. Routines And Procedures First Grade Teachers Need To Teach For Better Classroom Management

A2ElementaryJuly 15, 20269 min

In this episode, Molly shows you how to teach classroom routines and procedures in first grade that actually stick so you can improve classroom management and help your students know exactly what to do each day. After 35 years of teaching first grade, Molly learned that most behavior problems don’t happen because kids are trying to misbehave. They happen because students haven’t been taught exactly what they are expected to do. In this episode, she’ll walk you through the 5-step process she used for teaching routines, creating clear expectations, improving student behavior, and setting up classr...

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If you feel like you spend your entire day repeating directions, dealing with interruptions, or reminding kids what they're supposed to be doing, you might not actually have behavior problems. You might have routine problems. After years of teaching, I learned that most classroom management problems happen because we haven't taught kids exactly what we expect them to do. So today I'm showing you the classroom routines and procedures every first grade teacher needs to teach,

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and a simple five-step process for teaching them so your classroom will run smoothly all year long. So let's go. When you're planning out which procedures you want to teach your students, think about what you do every single day,

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because these procedures are going to become routines that kids are going to follow all year long. And never assume that kids know how to do anything, especially in kindergarten and first grade. They need to be taught every single thing, step by step or everything you do. Things that seem obvious to us are not always obvious when you're six years old.

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