Angela Watson’s Truth for Teachers
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Are you constantly losing instructional time to off-task behavior? What if you shifted your focus from eliminating misbehavior and interruptions to maximizing learning time?
The goal is to engage every student, but not necessarily all at the same time, and certainly not every minute. At any given point in your day, at least a few are going to be tuning out and allowing their minds to wander.
Since we know that off-task behavior is normal and expected, we can plan our responses in advance instead of reacting out of frustration.
When the goal is to eliminate interruptions, you feel like you have to address every single one so it never happens again. When the goal is to maximize learning time, you can choose a more constructive response that keeps the majority of the class on-task.
This approach will reduce the wasted class time spent on lectures about the rules and arguing with kids over what you’ve told them to do. Here’s how to plan your responses in advance so you’re not constantly exploding in frustration over minor things.
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