Activity Two: Planning for/Developing Routines and Procedures

Plan the routines for one of your classes. The activity expects that you will teach the class. It may
be a class that you teach for an observation by your MST/MCT or just a practice class that you
teach with the permission of your MST. The lesson can be incorporated as one of your formal
observations if your MST/MCT decides. In order to complete the activity you are required
(whether the lesson is one of your formal observations or not) to fill in and submit the planning
sheet below.
Before you begin to complete the table write a little bit about the class/lesson in which this plan
for routines is to be used. Include:
Lesson objectives
Main activities in the lesson
Grouping of students during each main activity
Behaviour expected during each activity (e.g. sharing resources; changing stations;
presenting)
Where are the transitions in the lesson? What are they: (e.g. moving from plenary to
group work between main activity one and main activity two)

Grade/Class Routine Routine Routine

Learning Objective The first routine that was
of the implement by me is asking
routine/procedure one of the students to go
through the classroom
(what it hopes to
behavior rules and read them
achieve)
loudly along with the rest of
the students. The aim and
purpose of this routine, is to
announce the classroom
behavior rules positively at
the beginning of the lesson in
order to ensure that the
lesson runs smoothly without
interruptions and negative
behavior occurring.
The second routine that was
implemented by me is
playing and reviewing the
daily songs (days of the week,
phonics, parts of a plant,
seven emirates in the UAE
etc) to the students and
ensure that everyone was
participating. The aim and
purpose of this routine is to
keep students on track by
remembering the important
and useful topics that will
help them in their academic
progress and daily life.
The third routine that was
implemented by me is
making students take
turns according to their
groups when having their
toilet breaks. The aim and
purpose of this routine is
to avoid and prevent
interruptions from
occurring when teaching
for asking for toilet
permissions.
Anecdotal
Evidence
(e.g. pictures of
your class during
the routine; posters
of rules etc.)
Place in todays This routine was
class (when will performed/held at the
you perform the beginning of the lesson that
routine) was taught by me.
Importance to the As mentioned previously, this
smooth functioning routine/procedure will
of todays class inform the students at the
beginning of the lesson their
expected behavior
(positive/discipline). As they
will be informed of the
consequences for students
who misbehaves or do not
follow the rules.
How well did this This routine didnt work
routine work in really well in todays lesson.
todays class This is because, in that
particular lesson students
were taught by me for the
first time which made it hard
for me to maintain their
positive behavior since I
taught grade two level in a
boys school.
If you had to teach This routine could be
this class over, how adapted by focusing on my
would you adjust voice tone when
this routine and communicating with them
why and announce my
expectations throughout the
lesson. In addition,
rewarding students who are
behaving positively could
This routine was
performed/held at the
beginning of the lesson that
was taught by me.
This routine will allow the
students to participate and
be active at the beginning of
the day since they will be
sinning and moving which
could result as an effective
learning throughout the
lesson.
This routine worked
exceptionally well indeed
students were excited and
encouraged to sing and get
involved because the songs
are fun and had some
physical moves which made
them more interesting.
This routine could be
adapted by adding new
academic songs that could
expand and add on students
knowledge such as:
mathematics subject could
be added into songs in order
to ensure that the three
important subjects (English,
This routine was
performed/held before
beginning my lesson.
This routine will allow the
students to stay in the
classroom when teaching
in order to ensure that
they do not miss any
important information if
they were away from the
classroom (in the toilet).
This routine worked
exceptionally well because
all of the students had
their toilet breaks.
However, some students
asked to go for toilet
breaks but werent
allowed to leave the
classroom.
This routine could be
adapted by allowing
students go to the toilet if
needed after explaining
the important parts of the
lesson. In addition,
students could be given
specific time to go to the
toilet in order to ensure
reinforce other students Maths and Science) are that they are not
behavior. In such way, covered/presented when roaming/playing within
students will respect and playing the daily songs. the school.
follow the instructions that
are given to them because
they will notice that the
teachers voice tone changed
and she is serious towards
them.