Management+Strategies


 * Management Strategies**
 * 1) Meeting, greeting and providing first instructions students at the door before the bell rings
 * 2) Monroe Blackboard Configuration - Do Now (when you enter the classroom), Today (plan for class), Homework
 * 3) Carefully thought out seating plan
 * 4) Calling on students by name - before asking a question targets a specific student; after asking a question, everyone must think about the answer because they don't yet know who will be called
 * 5) Structured routines (eg. 72 Daily Writing, 83 Mon Readers' Workshop; Friday Writers' Workshop
 * 6) Organizational Tools - duotangs for all classes; daily writing books for 72
 * 7) Clear expectations that are revisited as required eg. after a long break
 * 8) Collecting work at the door vs. annonomously handing it into a bin or pile - measure of accountablility as they know I will be checking it
 * 9) Student ownership - choice in activities, assist in development of criteria for assessment eg. rubrics
 * 10) Providing instruction orally and visually (written on white board or projected on SmartBoard)
 * 11) Eye contact
 * 12) Proximity
 * 13) Minimal verbal
 * 14) Discussion outside door
 * 15) Buddy classes
 * 16) Humour
 * 17) Feeling tone
 * 18) Wait time
 * 19) Students are provided time to share and discuss every period. Students are made aware of when this time will be provided.
 * 20) A variety of different things happen in the period which may include but are not limited to: teacher directed minilesson, think-pair-share, tapping into prior knowledge, independent thinking/writing, sharing time, giving and getting feedback, independent time to consider feedback, etc. Variety keeps things interesting.
 * 21) Students sometimes select who will be called on next - preferably in a boy girl fashion - keeps students on their toes as they never know who will be called on next.
 * 22) Everyone talks every period.