EPC 2903 Teaching Practice Booklet

Activity One: Observing Classroom Routines and Procedures

Name/Descri Give the When and where the Aim of the routine How did/do the students learn about this
ption of the instructions that routine is used? routine?
routine. the routine uses (what student How is the routine reinforced?
(e.g. at the end of the behavior it hopes to
school day etc.; or to achieve) (e.g. mentoring; classroom signs; reminders by
guide presentations the teacher; use of peer interaction by the
after group work) teacher to promote such behavior etc.)
1 Getting ready -When you At the begging of the -Attend morning In the first day of doing this routine the teacher
for morning arrived the day which is before assembly on time. was waiting for the students in classroom to
assembly classroom put the morning -Prevent distribution. give them instructions, but after they get used
your bag in the assembly. to it she gave them the responsibility to
bags corner. organize their things in the right places and
-Then stand up in line up.
the line until the
ring bell and go to
the morning
assembly in
organize lines.
2 - when the teacher Any time, when the Get the students When the teacher raise her hand she praise the
Attention raise her hand and teacher need their attention in easy way first students who raised their hands in order to
signal say Give me attention and want to instead of shouting motivate the other students to stop stop what
five you have to stop what they're and wasting time. they're doing and raise their hands quickly
stop talking and doing in order to next times.
raise our hands. move to another part
of the lesson.
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3 Going - If you need to Anytime in the Its important for the The teacher have 4 cards 2 for girls and 2 for
outside the go to the restroom classroom if its teacher when she see boys to go to the nurse and restroom.
classroom or to the nurse necessary. that card is missing
you have take she remember that a
permission from student is still
the teacher and outside.
take the card.
4 Transitions - If it's time to This transition happen To make the The teacher reinforced the organization in
inside move each group when they move from transitions work transition routine by putting signs beside each
classroom have to stand up the groups to the mat smoothly, quietly and group where they have to line up on the sign
on his stop sign or to reading corner organized. and wait for their group name to move to the
and wait until the and the opposite. other areas of the class.
teacher say the
group name, then
you can move.
5 Cleaning up - When the Cleaning up happen To give the students The teacher motivate them for this routine by
teacher play few times everyday, the responsibility to playing clean up song and sing with them
clean up song when they finish from clean and tidy their which make it fun, and she make organize the
you have to clean activities and when classroom by resources easier by labeling the resources
your place and they about to leave themselves, also to boxes with pictures and names.
return the the class at the end of teach them that the
resources (glues, the school day. school and class is
scissors, pencils..) their second home
to their right that's why they have
place. to take care of it.
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Activity Two: Planning for/Developing Routines and Procedures

Class/Year Routine1: Routine2: Routine3:

Manage Finishing work early. Group leaders
behavior by
Traffic lights
reward
system.
Learning Objective of the Motivate the Use the time in something Try to make the
routine/procedure students to useful instead of wasting student feel that
(what it hopes to achieve) behave well time in waiting for the he/she is important
and do good other students to finish person in this
things in order their work. classroom and part
to be in the of it, so she/he
happy green have the
light. responsibility to
manage the group
members.
Anecdotal Evidence
(e.g. pictures of your class
during the routine; posters
of rules etc.)

Place in todays class (when I used it today Today I used after giving In the begging of
will you perform the in the middle them group activities and the class I take a
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routine) of the lesson two groups finish early so jar with students
because the I gave one group names to choose a
student Faisal vocabulary puzzles and group leader for
was the other group I asked each group.
distributing his them to set in the reading
friends while corner and read.
which lead me
to put his
name in the
sad red light.
Sometimes I
just observe
their behavior
and use the
traffic light
board at the
end of the
lesson.
Importance to the smooth It helped me to Today's class was quite It helped me to
functioning of todays class function the because they were busy function the class
class where I with reading and solving because the group
can stop puzzles instead of doing leaders helped me
misbehaving nothing and for the others. in many things
and praise the such as, giving and
good students. collecting papers
and resources.
How well did this routine It worked well It worked well because it It worked well
work in todays class because it keep the students busy because with the
stopped mis with something useful help of the group
behaving instead of wasting their leaders I saved my
easily, for time in waiting. time.
example today
when I put
Faisal name he
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stopped
distributing his
friends.
If you had to teach this class Of course I This routine is must, I will I will change the
over, how would you adjust use the reward use it because its really group leader into
this routine and why system as useful but I will add more more things so
routine but I extra simple activities the each member of
will change students can do and I will the group have to
the them and add more than one Ipad do something for
the design to with learning apps example:( writer,
make it more because as we know these reader..)
attractive. I students are technology
will use it generation so we have to
every day to implement activities
reinforce good related to technology
behavior and where the learning
motivate become fun.
students to do
good things
and prevent
misbehaving.
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Reflection
Implementing routines and procedures in the classroom is very important because routines are the
backbone of classroom life. It have a lot of benefits for both the teacher and the students, it not just
make the teacher life easier, it's really save the teacher time and its make it easier for the students to
learn and achieve more, also it teach the students to be organize in all their life aspects. I think
teaching new habits take time like a couple of weeks on each routine depending on the class. The
teacher have to be carefully in teaching the students a new routines so never teach them too many
routines at once, also the teacher have to clarify the routines by modeling specially for young
students and make sure that they understand the reason of the routine.
In my future classroom I will implement the three routines that i've stated above because I think
they are the most important routines that every class have to involve it, the routines are: using the
reward system, extra activities for who finish early and group leaders which is a good idea for
hyper active students so you can make them move to do useful and helpful things. These routines
make fantastic positive effects on the students behavior.