What's Happening Today?
Using a Daily Schedule to Manage Time (Virtual Tour)
Stage of Literacy Development:
Stage 1: Beginning LiteracyStage 2: Consolidation / Fluency
Ages:
6-9
Grade Range:
1st 2nd 3rdFood Groups:
Primary: Classroom Tips
Transcript
This is our classroom schedule, as you can see it's color coded. Anything that's in green are classes that happen in the classroom and classes that I'm teaching. Anything that happens in yellow are classes that happen out of the classroom and often take place with another class in another classroom. It's really important that the students take ownership of the schedule so they know what's coming next, and they can use it and they can have more predictability in their day. One really important thing we do is some days we discuss how the schedule should look. There's certain subjects that have to stay where they are, but there's many other subjects that we can decide as a class based on how we're feeling that day, where our energy is, what we can do to build the schedule. It's really important that students have some control and some choice over how their learning happens throughout the day.
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Activity Objective
The goal of What's Happening Today?: Using a Daily Schedule to Manage Time (Virtual Tour) is to provide students with predictability in their routine and teach them to take ownership for their learning.
Quick Tips
Additional Comments:
- Consider the time of day and length of activity when scheduling various subjects.
- Use different colors for whole group instruction and independent work activities.
- Give students specific guidelines about how long each activity will last.
- Whenever possible, provide students with opportunities to modify the schedule based on learning needs.
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