DAILY TIMED

ACTIVITIES AND
PRODUCTIVITY IN
THE CLASSROOM

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
EMILY CARTER
MARCH 25, 2020

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PURPOSE
Objectives Standards

¡ Assess how classroom data shows

student productivity and management.
- NBPTS Proposition 3: Teachers are
¡ Learn strategies to increase student responsible for managing and
engagement using timed activities. monitoring student learning.
- TLMS Domain 4: Facilitating
¡ Consider how to implement ways to improvements in instruction and
incorporate a daily timed activity in student learning.
your own classroom.

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 IMAGINE
...that you were student in a class that did not have any structure.
You might be picturing complete anarchy and chaos: a lack of
engagement, students off-task, and no sense of urgency or desire
to learn.
How would you be able to learn in this environment?
More importantly, what are some ways the teacher can avoid this
type of situation?

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Educational Hook
According to Harry Wong,
author of The First Days of
School, students and high
school-aged people crave
structure in order to focus
and learn best.
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Expectations of a college-prep school (like ours!):
Adapted from The Teaching Channel

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Dual-coding technique
 HERE IS A POSSIBLE
SOLUTION TO ABSENT
STRUCTURE AND
STUDENT FOCUS

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 TIMING STUDENTS

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 BY A SHOW OF
HANDS, HOW
MANY OF YOU
CURRENTLY
TIME CLASS
ACTIVITIES
DAILY?

PROGRESS MONITORING QUESTION

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TIMING STUDENTS- THE BENEFITS
¡ According to Julia Marcucci on The Teaching Channel, daily timing of
students:
1. Helps keep the task at hand important for the students.
2. Limits help, keeps the educator organized, and divides time well
for students and more topics [are covered] for learning.
3. Can make a concrete structure for how the class will be taught.
[W]ith time cut-offs, students can learn more topics after the
time has [stopped], instead of lingering and spanning out the
time to make things “easier” [for them]…

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POSSIBLE SIGNS YOU MAY NEED TO IMPLEMENT
DAILY TIMING

¡ Have you ever felt like your class was unproductive when you gave
them a whole class period to work on an assignment (or when you
told them it was not due at the end of the period)? (raise hand)
¡ Have you ever witnessed bad behavior when students don’t have a
structured schedule or timed activity? (raise hand)

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 CONSIDER THIS:
¡ Do you tend to time your
activities for students to
give them guidance and
structure, or do you lead
with a more open-ended
timeline? If so…
¡ Is this usually effective
for your classroom and
content needs?
¡ Are students focused on
the task at hand
throughout the period, or
are they on their iPads,
unfocused and not
present?
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 ¡ Those were some of the problems I
experienced during my first year of teaching.

MY JOURNEY TO ¡ But I found the solution to those problems!

¡ I slowly began implementing timed strategies

TIMED CLASS for each activity we did. I suddenly found that
STRUCTURE, with this timed structure (timing everything

CONT. we did) not only kept students focused and on

task, but I also covered more curriculum
throughout the year!

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 “Your class is hard because everything is timed,
FEEDBACK but I feel prepared because I do not
procrastinate and slack off.”
FROM MY
”Your class goes by really quickly when we are
STUDENTS: being timed. And I don’t go on YouTube in here.
(AFTER I BEGAN That is probably because I am so focused.”
IMPLEMENTING 100%
TIMED STRUCTURE)
“I feel like we cover a lot in your class.”

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Smart Art
 SOME Timed quizzes
WAYS YOU
CAN Timed essays or passage reading
IMPLEMENT
DAILY Stamping activities (if teacher doesn’t
want to collect yet)
TIMED
ACTIVITIES Timed group or individual work due at the
end of the period

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Smart Art
EXAMPLE OF HOW I STRUCTURE MY CLASSES (AP
LANGUAGE AND HONORS):

¡ Timed homework/reading quiz; grade in class together. (7 minutes)

¡ Timed interactive teacher lecture or teacher-led demo (10-15 minutes)

¡ Timed reading or writing (up to 30 minutes)

¡ Timed individual or group work, almost always due at the end of the
period or stamp required (remaining class time- approx. 30-40 minutes)

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Dual-coding technique
 ¡ Jot down (or think about) a typical day
NOW YOU in your classroom with the
TRY: approximation of time in minutes it will
take for each class activity.

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Dual-coding technique
ASSESSMENTS:
I chart class averages of various activities (with labeled
dates).

ONE WAY I
TRACK MY Each average will reveal their focus level and comprehension

TIMED
level.

STUDENTS’
PROGRESS:
I average each period’s scores Argument essays
into four categories that coincide Synthesis essays
with the AP test, but you can do
Rhetoric essays
this with non-AP classes as well.
Multiple choice tests
For example:

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Dual-coding technique/ Smart Art
 • These are Post-It
notes charting
averages across our
practice argument,
rhetoric, and
HERE IS AN IMAGE OF synthesis essays, as
MY A.P. LANGUAGE well as multiple
CLASSES' “AVERAGES choice test.
CHART”: • They are all dated in
the order they were
taken.

DUAL-CODING TECHNIQUE
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 From my own
experience and It may feel a bit
the experience of quick-paced at
other teachers first, but it is so
like Julia helpful in
ULTIMATELY… Marcucci, one maintaining
can see that good student
timing activities behavior and
keeps students covering as
focused, much content as
engaged, and on- you can.
task.

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Smart Art
CULMINATING QUESTION

What are some ways you can implement at least one

daily timed activity into your classroom structure?

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CULMINATING ACTIVITY

Please complete my Google Survey (emailed to you) to

show me what you have learned and ways you plan to
implement timed activities.

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 THANK YOU!

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