Get off on the right foot by teaching the curriculum on day one. It sets the tone that your expectations are about learning. I used to spend the first day or two on procedures only. It always left me in a rush at the end of the nine weeks. What I started doing was teaching on day one, and using only the first 5-10 minutes to go over basic procedures which gradually built on each other. Now, if you are teaching kindergarten, that is a different ballgame. In kindergarten and first grade, procedures(early in the year) are the game. Kindergarten teachers do a huge favor to the rest of the school by teaching students how bathroom breaks work, how to walk in a line, how to follow behavior expectations, how to get food in the cafeteria, and just generally how to co-exist in a school! From second grade on up, start teaching on day one. It doesn’t have to be a lot, but start knocking out part of the pacing guide.
Effective Classroom Time Management: A Quick Word About the Beginning of the Year
