How to Teach ANY Procedure
What’s Here
On this page, you can download a free chapter from The Cornerstone book which will show you how to create expectations for any classroom procedure, and then introduce, model, and reinforce your expectations with students.
Download the FREE BOOK EXCERPT!
Chapter 9, “How to Teach Any Procedure: Making Your Classroom Expectations a Reality”
In just this single chapter (15 pages!), you’ll learn:
- The importance of ongoing (distributed) procedure practice
- How to form precise expectations and figure out exactly what you want
- What not to do (how to phrase your expectations so kids will successfully meet them)
- Why you should be cautious about misusing the term ‘we’
- How to use a variety of signals to facilitate routines
- The art of replacing nagging and criticism with performance feedback
- The 8 steps for teaching ANY procedure you want kids to follow
- How to play the Procedure Review Game as a FUN reminder for kids
- The key to revising your criteria without confusing kids or seeming incompetent
- What to do when kids don’t meet your expectations (repeat the practice, not the command)
- The power of “Go back and try it again” (and how to get kids to do it without attitude!)
- Ways to accommodate special needs children
- How to avoid a slow descent into laziness and sloppily-done procedures
- Ideas for logical rewards and appropriate incentives that foster intrinsic motivation
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Works-For-Me-Wednesday: Using Portable Dividers to Separate Students’ Desks
Picture Mail I Dream of Sending (to the parents of kids who drive me nuts)
Now What?
Visit the main Behavior Management page
Visit the main Routines and Procedures page
Explore various procedures for starting and ending the day on the Arrival/Dismissal Routines page
Learn how to set up predictable daily routines on the Bathroom, Hall, and Water Fountain page
See how to introduce your rules to students on the How to Create Class Rules page
Discover how to routinely build a sense of community on the Class Meetings page
Create an efficient system for managing paper procedures on the Passing Out/Collecting Papers page
