Good practices about time and children’s attention

1. by 11th Nipiagogio Chanion
Good practices about
time and children’s
attention
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2. Good practices about time and children’s
attention
Gaining attention is one of the great challenges of teaching. Teacher and student
work together effectively when each attends to the situation in an active, selective
way. The ability to ask for and receive your pupils’ listening and performance. It
allows you to give instruction anytime you need to and know that it will be heard and
understood. It’s also a sign of a well-run classroom.
We work on time of the day and children’s attention for four months(Nov. 2015- March
2016.

3. Good practices about time and children’s
attention
We follow steps to gain the pupils’ attention:
Step 1: Explain why.
We have explained why what we are asking of our students. It is important and worth
practicing—in all areas of classroom management.
This is a critical step in motivating them to not only go along with our expectations, but to
agree with them on the basis that they make the classroom better and more enjoyable.
As you remember from Estonian meeting we had presented you the circle rules.

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attention
Step 2: Choose a signal.
Many teachers prefer train whistles, bells, and other manufactured sounds to signal for
attention. And although these can work fine (as long as we remain in the classroom), our
voice is a better option—because it helps develop the habit of listening attentively whenever
we speak. It develops the habit of consistently following our directions.
A simple with whispering voice ‘’are you listening to me?’’.
Another tip that we turn off the light. They realise at once what is happening.

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attention
Step 3: Expect an immediate response.
The biggest mistake teachers make is allowing students more time than they need to
respond. This is key.
When we frame our expectations in any terms other than immediate, our students will
push their response time back further and further.

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attention
Step 4: Model it.
Our pupils need to see exactly what giving us their attention looks like. To that end,
we sat at a table and pretend we were working independently or as part of a group but
without paying attention.
We also model other common scenarios like a social story playing it with finger dolls.
A snake and a owl. The scenario was about a snake that didn't pay attention to owl’s
teaching.
Also every day a pupil is in a teacher role during the routines. Every child acts this
role in turn, just to realise how is to not pay attention.

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children’s attention
Step 5: Make practice fun.
Working with a spirit of fun, it gives always a positive result.
‘’Do what I do’’ is a game that we play when we have observed that we
don’t have the attention, usually at 15.00 pm that they are so tired. We
give our pupils a motion and they must repeat it. We change role and the
leader is a pupil that gives the motion and other pupils follow.
‘’Repeat my rhythm’’, The teacher or a pupil gives a rhythm by claping
hands or other parts of the body.

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children’s attention
Thank you for your… attention!

9. Good practices about time and
children’s attention
Sources:
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4613-2985-5_3#page-1
http://www.smartclassroommanagement.com/2016/03/19/how-to-ask-for-a
nd-receive-your-students-attention-within-two-seconds/
http://www.smartclassroommanagement.com/2011/02/12/how-to-get-stud
ents-to-pay-attention/
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/gaining-attention/gaining-attention