This document provides guidance on teaching procedures in the classroom. It explains that procedures are statements of student expectations that allow classroom activities to run efficiently. The document outlines specific procedures like what to do at the bell, with questions, and finished work. It distinguishes that procedures tell how to do something, while routines are done automatically. It recommends teaching procedures by telling students expectations, displaying them visually, demonstrating through modeling, having students practice, and periodically re-teaching or reviewing procedures.

1. Steps to teaching Procedures
Explain
RehearseReinforce

2. Procedures
•Are statements of student expectations
necessary to participate successfully in
classroom activities, to learn, and to function
effectively in the school environment.
•Allow many different activities to take place
efficiently during the school day, often several at
the same time, with a minimum of wasted time
and confusion.
•Increase on-task time and greatly reduce
classroom disruptions.
•Tell a student how things operate in the
classroom, thus reducing discipline problems.

3. Procedures Answer Questions
• What to do when the bell rings.
• What to do when the pencil breaks.
• What to do when you hear an emergency
alert signal.
• What to do when you finish your work early.
• What to do when you have a question.
• What to do when you need to go to the
restroom.
• How to enter the classroom.
• Where to put completed work.

4. Procedures Vs. Routines
• Procedures tell how you want something
done.
• Routines are things the students do
automatically without prompting or
supervision.

5. Teach your Expectations
• Tell - Make sure you “communicate expectations”.
• Display visually – Include what it “looks like,
sounds like”. This can be done on the projector, a
chart, or on a wall or bulletin board.
• Demonstrate – “Right, wrong, right”. Model the
be behavior using role play or skits.
• Practice – “Just do it.” It is important to practice
the procedures and routines that you want to take
place in the classroom.
• Re-Teach/Review/Remind – It is important to re-
teach when necessary. Review the rule,
procedures and routines, to remind students after
breaks and holidays.

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