As I explained in my previous article (The Foundations of Effective Teaching, SecEd 395, October 16, 2014), the essential groundworks of effective teaching are built of rules and routines, regularly repeated and reinforced.
Or, to quote Doug Lemov in his book Teach Like a Champion: “Great teaching is an art... (and) great art relies on the mastery and application of foundational skills, learned individually through diligent study.”
Indeed, Lemov argues that: “One unmistakable driver of student achievement (is) carefully built and practiced routines.”
So let’s take a look at how to establish good habits and routines for undertaking everyday tasks – such as handing out work – in order to reduce low-level disruption...
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