1. Practical Teaching Tips
A Primary Perspective

2. Classroom Management:
General Thoughts
 Rule #1: Be Prepared
-When you have to pause to refocus they get distracted.
-Know your lesson.
-Have supplies ready and close by.
-Plan for Transitions and Early Finishers
-Have procedures to get attention/be ready
-Routines help students know what to expect and what
is expected of them.
-Have a behavior management plan that works for you.

3. Classroom Management:
Practical Strategies
 Getting Attention: • General Management
-Teacher: “1-2-3, Eyes on Me” -Ask 3, Then Ask Me
-Noise Level Stoplight
Students “1-2 Eyes on You”
-Clapping Patterns
-Chchch (Echo)
-Two lips closed 2 eyes on me.
 Listening and Ready:
-Give me 5 (Eyes are Watching, Ears are
Listening, Lips are closed, Hands are
Still, Feet are Quiet)
-Criss-cross applesauce, spoons in a bowl.

4. Classroom Management:
Practical Strategies
 Behavior Management Systems:
-Free Time Minutes
-Points earned and spent/class money
-Stoplight
-Marble Jar (Whole Class)
-Divide into teams/table groups
-Moving Clips
 Remember:
-Individual and group
-Move up, not just down
-Proximity and Motivation

5. Teaching Strategies:
General Thoughts
 Master the Mini-lesson. Short attention spans.
 Multisensory whenever possible.
-Motions, songs, props, write, read, hear, say.
 Key Questions/ Objectives
-Introduce them at the beginning and return to them
often.
 General Pattern:
-Prior Knowledge, New Content, Model, Practice, Assess

6. Teaching Strategies:
Practical Suggestions
 Centers/ Task Board Charts, T-Charts, and
Venn Diagrams)
 Gallery Walk
 Bingo or another activity
 Think-Pair-Share during a movie.
 Exit/Entrance Slips
 Graphic Organizers (KWL

7. Teaching Strategies:
Practical Suggestions Continued
 Discussions/Questioning:
 If only a few people raise their hands, ask students to:
“tell someone near you”, then repeat the question.
 If an answer is not complete or not exactly what you
were looking for, try asking “does someone want to
add to that?”
 Jar of sticks with names/numbers
 Whiteboards
 Think-Pair-Share

8. Teaching Strategies:
Practical Suggestions Continued
 Vocabulary:
 Memory
 I have_______, Who has ________
 Act it out (do it together, or in groups and share)
 Word Wall
 Concept Circles (What’s my Rule?-Learn relationships
between words.)
 Word Detectives