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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0

In our first grade classroom, the teacher has established a procedure in order to make transitions happen more smoothly and quickly. When it is time to clean up and transition to something new, she tells the students they have 5 or 10 seconds and then she counts down calmly, showing the number on her fingers. Instead of stopping at 1, she counts all the way down to 0 because Pioneer Elementary has a system for voice levels, and when students are supposed to be completely quiet, that is a "Level 0". So when my cooperating teacher gets down to 0, everyone is in their seats, with everything put away and completely quiet, waiting for the next instructions. I was amazed to watch how effective it was the first time I saw it.
Posted by Tiffany Vause at 8:15 PM
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